#greg bushell

[mitjalovse]

A couple of the Australian rock musicians are like their peers outside. Sebastian Hardie, for instance, could've been on a tour with Mike Oldfield and Steve Winwood's Go, yet their reach didn't go much beyond Australia. Sadly, one might add as the band managed to combine the British version of progressive rock with the American one. Still, they sounded closer to the former than the latter, which you can hear on the link. To be honest, Mike Oldfield does feel like the closest comparison to them in the terms of their soundscapes, but they favoured a more progressive rock sound than him. Sure, Oldfield was like the style I mentioned, though his folk rock was more pronounced than anything else, whereas Sebastian Hardie felt closer to, say, Yes than anything else.

[a-man-for-hire-and-his-archives]

A priest with a gun sets the scene in TV’s newest ‘whydunit’

Jay Ryan, Luke Arnold and Bella Heathcote star in Scrublands. Credit: Stan

The story starts with a bang. A priest in his white and purple robes strides out of a country-town church with a rifle – yes, a priest with a rifle – and starts shooting parishioners, leaving five of them dead. Father Byron Swift is then himself shot dead in self-defence by the local copper. Thus begins the saga of Scrublands, a new mini-series set in regional Australia – and obviously there’s no mystery about whodunit.

Jay Ryan stars as the gun-toting Father Byron Swift in Scrublands. Credit: Stan

In fact, at first there’s no mystery about anything at all. The priest had recently been accused of paedophilia, and the official explanation is that he got himself killed rather than face up to the crime. But then, a year later, burnt-out Sydney Morning Herald journalist Martin Scarsden arrives in town to write a perfunctory story about how the town is faring 12 months on, and starts to smell a rat.

Based on former journalist Chris Hammer’s best-selling novel of the same name, Scrublands is a thriller set in a remote country town, Riversend, which has been battered by years of drought, fire and flood, is reeling from a terrible act of violence, and harbours a profound distrust of outsiders generally, and anyone in the media specifically.

Producer David Redman, whose credits include Charlie & Boots and Strange Bedfellows, says distilling the novel, a whydunit rather than a whodunit, into a four-part series is no mean feat. “It’s amazing how much story you can tell in four episodes,” he says. “It’s pacy. No one’s going to fall asleep in this one, particularly not after the opening scene. It’s such an iconic and unusual way to start, as far as making sure you have an engaged, attentive audience.”

Writer Felicity Packard (Underbelly, Janet King) agrees. “The opening scene is pretty much what takes place in the novel. That’s a really powerful way to start. You’re not hiding your light under a bushel, it’s right up there in episode one, scene one.”

Luke Arnold plays burnt-out Sydney Morning Herald journalist Martin Scarsden in Scrublands. Credit: Sarah Enticknap/Stan

Director Greg McLean has form when it comes to filming Australian crime drama. His CV includes the legendary outback horror flick Wolf Creek. Packard enthuses about his vision. “He has such a strong idea of what he’s doing. He’s already got the edit in his head, so he know what he’s shooting for. He doesn’t just shoot the shit out of things, he knows what he wants.”

The story revolves around two men, the charismatic and dedicated but mysterious priest Byron, played by Jay Ryan (The Creamerie, Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake) and the jaded, frustrated journalist Martin, played by Luke Arnold (Michael Hutchence in INXS biopic Never Tear Us Apart). Linking the two is Mandy Bond, played by Bella Heathcote (The Man in the High Castle, Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows), the beguiling owner of the local bookstore-cafe who has a few secrets of her own.

Bella Heathcote in Scrublands. Credit: Narelle Portanier

It was McLean who introduced Heathcote to the project. “I’d worked with him on Bloom [with Bryan Brown and Jacki Weaver] a couple of years ago and he and I were going to do another project together and that didn’t happen sadly, and he said, ‘I’ve got this other great project.’ He sent me the first two episodes, and I was hooked, I wanted to know what happened next.”

Heathcote’s character, who had studied at uni in Melbourne before returning to look after her dying mother, fascinated the actor. “Mandy just seems so tough and cool. No bullshit, the way she carries herself through life, the way she interacts with people in the town. I just really admired her. So often she has those quips I wish I had in any given situation!”

Instinctively playing her cards close to her chest, Mandy has to decide if she can trust the journalist who’s just shown up in town. Martin, meanwhile, is reassessing his commitment to unearthing the truth after an investigative story that spun horribly out of control.

“Martin is someone who was jet setting around the world righting wrongs, bringing justice to the world,” Arnold says. “This truth is so important that you know, if I’m going to hurt a few people along the way, it’s worth it if the story gets out.”

“There’s been the tragedy of a massacre happening here and the media stomping around, and is Martin going to contribute to that, or through setting the story straight can he help give this town a new future?”

The other main character in the story is the fictional town of Riversend. Film crews worked on location around Maldon, near Bendigo, and at the more remote Nyah West, up in the Mallee. “The advantage we have over the book is we can show things,” says Redman. “So visually, I don’t know if it’s literally a thousand words per image but we are definitely able to express the sense of isolation very quickly through what we show.”

The town author Chris Hammer created is inherently cinematic, Arnold says. “The idea of the kind of isolated town that was really wrecked by the event, picking up the pieces, so lent itself to screen”, Arnold says. “These key moments, these key locations, the bookstore-cafe being the centrepiece for a bit of romance.

“This was a beautiful country town, there was the chance for a flourishing community, but what happens when a town gets tarred with this, all people now think of when they hear Riversend is this awful massacre. If you’re a business owner, if you’re a local, if your family has grown up here what does this do to yourself, your future, your investment in your community and your family?”

There’s always the temptation, Redman says, to make films in studios, citing his movies Charlie and Boots and Strange Bedfellows, both starring Paul Hogan, as examples that benefited hugely from breaking out and working on location. On this production, recent floods gave them plenty of detail to work with. “In Baringhup [near Maldon] there was a caravan park we were using for some of the scenes. In October last year it was 2 metres under water so all the caravans were ruined, these were people’s houses. We could’ve created that visually on a backlot somewhere, but you wouldn’t have got the same feeling that these are people’s homes.”

Also, filming on location can produce moments of visual serendipity. Packard recalls a scene where Martin is talking to the sympathetic local cop Robbie (played by Adam Zwar). “At the end of the scene Robbie’s left sitting on a park bench. Greg McLean didn’t call ‘cut’ straight away, just waited to see what the actors might do. The actors didn’t do anything, but a flock of 200 corellas came swooping down and circled around him and then took off. The whole crew just gasped.”

With its dramatic scenery and the increasingly murky activities of the townsfolk, the series has all the hallmarks of an Australian thriller, but still, the heroes, villains and victims of this tale are not the usual suspects. “There’s an awful lot of stories about young women being killed,” says Packard. ”Not that it’s great to see five men being shot dead, but we’re doing something quite different there, it’s a different sort of crime.”

Scrublands premieres on Stan on November 16.

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

[lilacmoon83]

Dreaming Out Loud

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Chapter 115: Only You

Imagine a world where everything you thought to be fiction or myth turned out to be real. Imagine a world, larger than life, where Gods ruled, a simple kiss from a Prince really could wake a Princess, and the lines between good and evil were not as defined as one might think. Imagine that all the stories you think you know so well turned out to be much different than you thought. Imagine if magic was as real as science. Imagine if you didn't have to imagine any of that and it was all true…

"This is what you have so far?" Greg asked, as a barrage of real footage they had collected and images they had captured played on the screen after Landon's voice over ended.

"Yeah...it's great, don't you think?" he asked.

"It looks like a movie trailer. No one is going to think it's anything other than that," Greg complained, as he paced the room.

"I can't believe that three years of work and this is what we have," he growled.

"Hey...this is good. We have some really damning footage of real magic being performed and real life depictions of actual people that are thought to be fictional characters," Landon admonished.

"That no one will believe!" Greg argued.

"After three years...we have nothing! My father's bones are buried in the FBI crime lab, because no one cares about a thirty-three year old crime! And you've just made a fancy movie trailer that I'm sure any Hollywood studio would love to fund, but I have nothing!" Greg raged.

"Calm down...we can take a different approach with the footage. Maybe I got a bit cinematic with the voice over," Landon agreed.

"You think?" Greg snapped. Landon sighed.

"The crime lab is still our in with all of this. I know it's been a long time, but they will get back to us. They'll get a match. They may already have, but opening a cold case will have to go through proper channels. But that's good for us," he continued.

"How?" Greg asked.

"Because if they do match your DNA to the remains and identify him as your missing father...that will attract the attention of some of the higher ups. Opening a cold case that's over thirty years old doesn't happen every day," Landon replied. Greg sighed.

"Fine...just do something about that silly voice over," he said.

"Relax…I'll get rid of the voice over and turn on the regular audio. Maybe if we just go with the bare bones footage, people will see that it's completely unedited," Landon replied, as they watched some of the unedited footage.

"I just want her to pay…" Greg growled.

"I mean...she killed my father, but they allowed her to remain free and move on. All this bull about how she's redeemed herself and even found love! It's ridiculous! She deserves to be in prison!" Greg ranted.

"I agree with you...and maybe we can take a different strategy," Landon said.

"Like what?" Greg asked.

"Well...we've managed to acquire a few beans without them knowing over the years. Hell, they've grown so many that they'd never miss them even if we took a bushel. Maybe it's time to go to the FBI and make them listen. Maybe it's time to find a way to make her confess. We get her outside Storybrooke...there's no magic there to protect any of them," Landon replied.

"How are we going to do that?" Greg asked.

"She has a son...she has someone she loves now. We can use them to get her to do whatever we want," Landon replied.

"We'd have to lure them away from the rest," Greg reminded.

"Not easy...but not impossible either," Landon surmised.

"Okay...let's do it. Let's make her confess and then take her to them," Greg agreed.

"Great...in the meantime, I'll shop this tape around the Internet. No credible documentary company will pay it any mind. But on the dark web...that will be a different story. If we can get people talking about it...then eventually, it will go viral," Landon said.

~*~

Snow's emerald eyes opened and she smiled, as she found herself firmly ensconced in her husband's arms.

"Good morning," he said in a husky tone, as they shared a kiss.

"Good morning handsome," she purred back, as he held her close and they heard some babbling coming from the baby monitor.

"Sounds like someone else is awake," she mentioned. He smiled and kissed her cheek.

"I'll get her," he said, as he ventured off to the adjoining nursery. She heard their bedroom door open at that point and smiled at the sound of tiny feet beating it toward the bed. She leaned over and pretended to jump in surprise.

"Boo!" little Xander exclaimed and Snow gasped, as she helped him climb onto their large, King sized bed.

"Good morning sweetheart," she cooed, as she settled him in her lap and kissed his blonde haired head.

"Morning mommy…" he cooed in return, as he was focused on playing with the toys he had brought with him. About that time, David returned with their baby. Ten months ago, Snow had given birth to their third child, a little girl they decided to name Iris. While their son had inherited David's coloring in hair and eyes, their second daughter had very fine raven colored hair like Snow and David's blue eyes as well.

"Daddy!" Xander called, as David sat down on the bed with them and let the baby crawl between them, while his son jumped into his arms.

"What do you have there, little man?" he asked, as he noticed the toy horse in his hand.

"Horsie," he replied, as his baby sister had crawled into Snow's lap. David had changed her, but she was ready to nurse. He helped her settle down in bed and she began to nurse their daughter. These were their typical mornings, spent quietly together, before their daily routine would set in. They ruled together equally. David spent much of his time overseeing the defense side of their Kingdom and Sheriffing all the Realms with Emma, which he greatly enjoyed. Snow handled the day to day tasks on the diplomatic side, though there were many meetings they attended together, especially when military officials visited from other Kingdoms.

During the day, Ruth, Serafina, and Robert happily watched their grandchildren, as did Hades, Persephone, and Eli when their ruling duties allowed it. But Snow and David's children weren't the only ones keeping their six grandparents busy. There had been many changes to their family and it had grown in more ways than one.

"You go ahead and clean up first. And then we can switch," Snow said.

"You sure?" he asked. She nodded and cuddled the baby and their son, who was very occupied with his toys.

"Okay...then I'll get the munchkins dressed while you clean up. Then we'll go get breakfast," he said, as he kissed her tenderly.

"Granny's?" Xander asked. David chuckled.

"Yeah...we'll go to Granny's," he agreed.

"I want pancakes," he announced.

"Mmm...pancakes sound good. With blueberries," Snow said.

"No...chocolate chip, like Emmy has," Xander replied, making them chuckle.

"Okay...chocolate chip it is," Snow agreed, as he smiled at them and went to shower.

~*~

James looked out over his Kingdom from the balcony of the King's bed chambers. It was almost mind boggling how much his life had changed in the last three years since he had been miraculously resurrected. He was sure now that if Cronus knew for certain that he couldn't count on James' loyalty, he probably wouldn't have chosen to bring him back. But the God of Time had much bigger problems than him. He didn't know much about Cronus' original plan, except it had involved eliminating Zeus and then claiming the power of the skies. But that power had chosen Persephone as its new champion and had almost guaranteed that Cronus would never rise to power. He had settled into ruling his own Kingdom for the last three years and while they would always be leery of him, he was not the biggest threat out there.

After Leopold unfairly took back his own Kingdom, James had opened his castle to Regina and Henry, giving them a place to stay close. While they could have returned to the mansion in Storybrooke, Regina knew Henry wanted to be close to his biological family and Regina was sincerely working on repairing her relationship with Snow; much to his sister-in-law's delight.

It was a surprising thing to see Regina and Snow become good friends, especially after all the bad blood between them. But Regina had really committed to becoming a better person, for herself and for Henry. He understood her journey better than anyone, so it probably shouldn't have surprised them when they fell in love. But they did and after the shock had worn off, they had entered into a loving relationship, one like he had never had and never expected to have. And one she like she hadn't experienced since Daniel, except for what she found with James became far more powerful. With Daniel, it had been true love, but quite innocent and unburdened. But with James, they both still had darkness in them and would always struggle with it. But among all that, they had found kindred spirits in one another and ultimately a love neither of them expected or was even looking for, or so they thought.

"Why are you up?" Regina complained sleepily, as she put her arms around his waist and rested her head against his back. He smirked and turned so he could put one arm around her.

"Sorry...you know I get this way before we have big diplomatic meetings with the other Kingdoms," he said.

"Yeah...I kind of miss the days where I could just storm in and they would agree to whatever I want," she mused.

"This democracy thing definitely comes with more bickering than I like and having to be in a room with Midas and Leopold for hours makes me want to drink," he agreed. She smirked.

"Well...we still have a while until we have to be ready. I can give you something to think about during the meeting," she purred. He smirked and turned to her, as they engaged in a passionate kiss.

"We're supposed to meet everyone for breakfast," he reminded, as she led him back inside.

"Henry is with Emma and Neal so we can be a little late," she replied, as he eagerly followed her back to bed.

~*~

Henry sat in front of the television that morning in their sitting room, playing video games, while his parents shuffled around. The blonde baby girl in Neal's arms fussed a bit, while he dug through her diaper bag.

"Henry...have you seen Tallie's stuffed unicorn?" Neal asked.

"Nope," the teen replied and Neal rolled his eyes.

"Then stop playing the game and help me look. You know how fussy she gets without it," he said. Henry paused the game and started to look around, before finding it behind the sofa.

"Hey...big brother to the rescue," Neal said, as he showed their six-month-old daughter the stuffed toy. She grabbed onto it with chubby hands and calmed down, allowing him to put her in the stroller, as Emma came downstairs.

"Okay...let's go have breakfast and then we'll get you off to school, kid. Do you have your homework?" Emma asked.

"Yep," Henry replied, as he grabbed his backpack and turned the television off.

"Hey sweetheart...are you giving Daddy a rough time?" Emma cooed to their daughter.

"Like her mother," Neal deadpanned.

"Please...you love it," she said, nudging her fiance.

"Yeah...I do. I probably should have my head examined," he joked.

"Wouldn't do any good. No doctor can fix you," she joked back.

"Haha," he mocked sarcastically.

"Are we going or not? I'm starving," Henry complained.

"You're fourteen. You're always starving," Neal quipped, as he pushed the stroller out and they walked through one of Hades insta-portals, as they had come to call them, and arrived in front of Granny's for breakfast.

~*~

"Okay sweetie...there all cleaned up," Belle cooed, as she blew a raspberry on her little boy's tummy and he giggled. Rumple smiled from the doorway of the nursery in their castle.

"Everything in order?" he asked.

"Oh yes...we just had a bit of a diaper emergency. I don't think we'll be having anymore strained apricots for dinner anymore," she replied, as she finished dressing him and picked him up.

"You know, I could have cleaned him up with a wave of my hand," he quipped. She shot him a look.

"And I told you I don't want you changing Gideon's diapers with magic," she chided.

"Fine...but can I at least get rid of the dirty one?" he countered.

"Now that would be okay," she agreed, as the dirty diaper disappeared. She looked at him suspiciously.

"Where do all those dirty diapers go when you poof them away?" she asked. He shrugged.

"Who says that I don't just disintegrate them?" he answered with his own question.

"Because the other day, when we were at Snow's and David's, you made one disappear and Hades seemed to think it was funny," she responded. He smirked.

"Do you really want to know?" he asked. She rolled her eyes.

"You're right...it's probably best that I don't," she replied, as she handed their son to him and got his diaper bag. An insta-portal opened and they stepped through, arriving in front of Granny's.

~*~

"Ohhh...there they are. Come to Nana…" Persephone gushed, as Snow and David arrived at Granny's with the little ones.

"Nana!" Alexander called, as he rushed to her and she lifted him into her lap.

"Hello my handsome boy," she cooed, while Hades poofed a stuffed three-headed dog for him to play with you.

"You three spoil them rotten," Snow admonished, as she hugged her father.

"That is what Grandparents are for," Eli said, as eagerly took his tiny granddaughter in his arms. Snow shook her head in amusement and sat down beside her husband. Since her father's royal role these days was simply as an adviser, he had been very happy. The stress she had seen upon him while she was growing up, at least in the alternate reality, was gone and for that, she was very happy for him. Surprisingly to some, Hades was happy ruling beside her mother and gladly maintained his supportive role to her. He had naturally worried about his former Throne and who was taking care of the dead. It was very big job and one he took seriously. He regretted the years where he had ruled unjustly, but when they managed to learn that Prometheus had exited Elysian to take up the mantle, that had been a relief to him. Prometheus was a fair man and had always been an ally to mortals, being that he had gone against Zeus long ago when he gave fire to mortals. He had paid for it dearly, but had been rewarded a hero's afterlife in Elysian by Hades, centuries ago, much to Zeus' chagrin.

Persephone had proven equally that her new role as God of the Skies was very well suited to her as well. The last three years in the United Realms had yielded peace and for that, Snow was incredibly grateful. There were still conflicts, crime, and the normal day to day strife that any society faced, but peace had mostly reigned.

"Hey…" Emma called, as they were the next to arrive.

"Hey sweetie," Snow said, as she hugged her parents, while David eagerly lifted Tallie out of her stroller.

"Hey there peanut…" he cooed and patted his grandson on the arm.

"Oh...that reminds me," David said. Snow smiled and dug out some comic books from the pocket on their stroller.

"Wow...thanks Gramps," Henry said, as he accepted the gift.

"And Nana and Papa didn't forget you, sweetie," Snow cooed, as they presented her with a new stuffed sheep.

"You seriously just lectured us about spoiling our grandchildren," Hades mentioned. Snow smiled at him.

"Well, like you said...it's what grandparents do," she mused.

"Grandparents usually don't have kids the same age as their grand kids though," Emma teased.

"You shush and Iris got a new stuffed toy too when we picked out one for Tallie," Snow replied, as Rumple and Belle were next to arrive with Gideon.

"Hey…sorry, we're a bit late. We had to change clothes already this morning," Belle mentioned. Snow winced.

"We've had those mornings too," she replied. Gideon and Iris were only about a month apart. Snow and Belle had gotten pregnant nearly at the same time and being pregnant together had made them even closer friends. It had served to do the same for David and Rumple as well.

"Sorry we're late…" Regina said, as she and James finally arrived and she kissed Henry on his head, as they sat down.

"It's okay...our order is already in," Snow said.

"How do you know what I want?" Regina replied.

"Apple pancakes, mom...you're kind of predictable," Henry teased, making James chuckle in amusement. She nudged him.

"Very funny, you...new comics?" she asked. He smiled and slid one over to her.

"Yep," he answered, as she opened it to read, while they waited on breakfast and conversation flowed effortlessly as usual when they all managed to get together. Robert, Ruth, and Serafina arrived last, completing their family gathering, just as breakfast was delivered.

~*~

Ravenna paced in the secluded chamber of her palace, where Claude Frollo had conducted his work and experiments for the past three years. It was painstaking work and she felt no closer to any of her goals. If she didn't hold control over him, then she might think he wasn't doing what she asked. But unfortunately, the particular thing she was asking for was not easily accomplished.

Originally, she had wanted to find a way to curse her former step-daughter. She wanted her to suffer a fate worse than death, but she had quickly learned that there was no curse that existed that true love could not overcome. It became clear that death was the only thing that true love could not save her from. And so the search to find the perfect way to kill Snow White began. She wanted her to suffer and she wanted those around her to suffer losing her. She was so tired of her being the one that all the Kingdoms adored. She had everything. True love with a handsome, loving husband, who thought the sun rose and set with her. Three beautiful children and a large family full of people that would do absolutely anything for her. In addition to that, most of the people in the Kingdoms, particularly her own adored her and still called her the fairest of them all.

Her jealousy had steadily grown and her hatred with it. Hans had implored her to let it go, as he could see nothing good coming of it for their Kingdom. His older brothers agreed as well, but with Arawn still imprisoned for war crimes, Ravenna was next in line and had ruled flippantly. Her own interests were first, while the people did without. She was a very unpopular Queen and their own people constantly discussed how much better the rulers of some of other Kingdoms were. Snow White was always mentioned among them, which only further enraged their sister.

But Ravenna refused to work for her people in favor of fulfilling her own interests. She was always harshly criticized at the United Realm Council meetings and Hans was sure today would be no different.

"We may finally be onto something today," Frollo said.

"You've said that before and it always goes up in smoke," Ravenna retorted.

"And without this cauldron, you may never have gotten this far," he argued.

"Fine...do you have it then?" she asked.

"Not yet...but my research has revealed one crucial ingredient we need for success. Unfortunately, it is not available in our Enchanted Forest," he replied.

"Then where can we get what we need?" she demanded to know.

"Another magical forest...across the ocean," he answered. She had heard of this place and could even see it in the distance from her vantage point. It was still a mysterious place and the only place that had not sent a dignitary to join the United Realms Council. Very little was known about it still and there were even plans to send a group of diplomats there to make contact. No one was certain of why no one from this land had sent their own individuals out, but they had so far respected their obvious desire to remain isolated. If they still planned to send a team, she knew they would never choose to send her. They were always claiming she was too volatile and had an irresponsible rule. But that would not stop her from going there if the ingredient she needed was somewhere in that forest.

"Then we will leave for this new land, in secret, after today's Council meeting," she decided.

"Yes, my Queen," Frollo agreed, though he had little choice. As long as she held the Promethean flame, the very first and famed flame the God Prometheus had given to man, she would be able to control his every move.

~*~

Breakfast was finishing up and they paid their checks, while preparing to hand off all the little ones to Ruth, Robert, and Serafina, who were happily watching all of them, while they were attending the monthly Council meeting that morning.

"Okay kid...bus is pulling up outside," Emma said, as she hugged him and Regina did as well, as she kissed him on the head. He and Neal bumped fists, as he headed out to the bus

"Have a good day sweetie," Snow called, as he waved to his family. Just as they prepared to head back to the castle, Emma's phone rang.

"Sheriff," she answered, as she listened to the complaint on the other end.

"All right...we'll be right there," she said, with an eye roll.

"Another active bar fight at the Rabbit Hole," she said, as she put her jacket on.

"I'll give you a hand," David said, as he kissed Snow quickly.

"I'll catch up to you at the meeting," he promised. She nodded.

"Be careful," she called to both of them.

"Need an extra hand?" James asked.

"Couldn't hurt," David agreed, as his twin kissed Regina and followed them out. Snow smiled, as she watched her husband and daughter do what they did best. Helping and protecting people. She kissed her little ones and Ruth smiled at her.

"Off to save the day again, those two," she said fondly.

"As always. Thanks for watching them," Snow said.

"You know we love it," Seraphina replied. To have the three of them to help out was invaluable. Snow was not a fan of hiring a nanny and since her children had so many grandparents to help out, such had not be necessary.

"Well, I guess we better get to the Council meeting," she said, as they left the diner as well. She couldn't say that they ever accomplished a lot in their meetings, but they were still important to get all the leaders together in order to discuss the issues. She always hoped for less arguing and more solutions, which she did not always receive. Thus was the reality of politics. David usually got even more annoyed than her, for her husband was always one for action. But the diplomacy and this process were important and necessary, even if the results were slow to be realized most of the time. But she felt that the future had never been brighter as far as she was concerned and she only hoped that their relative peace continued to reign...

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The Pancho Problem (1/?)

Chapter (1/?): Flip side of the Coin Rating: Teen+ Pairing: Nick Stokes/Greg Sanders Summary: Trouble always seems to follow Nick Stokes. After their friend Warrick Brown mysteriously disappears, Nick goes rogue and is framed for a murder that he didn’t commit. It’s up to Greg Sanders to clear Nick’s name as well as help him find Warrick, receiving help from an unsuspected person. Chapter Notes: Set near the end of season 6, when Nick's hair returned to normal. Daddy's Little Girl never happened. POV throughout this fic will be Greg's. Read it on A03! | Next Chapter

Las Vegas. The city that never sleeps, though you wouldn’t know that in this part of town. Far from the strip, away from the bright neon lights and casinos, a silence looms over the dark side of the moon. Fog is beginning to spread its way through every street, every alleyway, every crack of the neglected shadow of sin city. There are no stars in the sky tonight, only bushels of clouds.

After the triple homicide I just closed, the droplets of a light drizzle offer a sort of catharsis, though the real comfort will come later at home with him by my side.

The history of this city, coupled with a new appeal for the aesthetics of noir-style mystery movies has caught my attention as of late. Over the past year, a lot of things have changed within me. All of us have changed, really, since the...incident last summer. But he’s changed most of all, though that’s not a surprise. Perhaps that’s why he agreed to come over and watch movies that came out before either of us were born.

“Control, this is Charlie-O-3 Stokes, shots fired, in pursuit of three suspects--”

Gunshots snap, crackle and pop through the speakers on the radio. For a moment, I freeze, slamming my foot on the brakes, not caring that my car is stopped in the middle of a deserted intersection. The once comforting silence is now filled with dread and paranoia, did he get shot?

“Charlie-O-3 Stokes, Control, Respond,”

More gunshots before his voice speaks through the radio, with increased ferocity and speed.

“Three suspects, armed--black van, license plate: Zoey Delta Zero--FU--”

Two more gunshots, and then Nick speaks again, his tone is flat, defeated.

“Control, suspects’ vehicle turned left onto Charleston. They have CSI Warrick Brown.”

The front of the lab is swarming with alternating red and blue lights by the time I arrive. I jump out of my vehicle, eyes scanning the swarming crowd for Nick--hopefully he wasn’t stupid enough to try and follow the suspects on foot.

Sara Sidle spots me, waving her hand in the air for me to come over, but she didn’t need to. I could see Nick’s head above everyone else’s, though his square jaw is pointed to the ground, his head hung in some sort of shame. A wave of relief falls through my body that they’re standing next to a light post and not an ambulance. Sofia stands next to them, jotting down notes in a notebook. Nick is recounting the events of the shooting, eyes closed, face scrunched in concentration.

“Next thing I know, lab’s covered in smoke, fire alarms’ going off, I was on the ground, trying to catch my breath...I remember seein’ Warrick in the Trace lab, trying to pull something outta one of the suspect’s arms. Another guy ran in, tried to knock him out, but Warrick wrestled him off, managed to get the guy’s gas mask and put it on himself. Then, all three of them ran out, the last guy joined ‘em, I was able to catch my breath and tried to get one of ‘em on their way out--”

He lifts up his right hand, a blood soaked bandage over his knuckles.

“Couldn’t see the face, I think I got ‘em in the mask. I ran outta the building and they started firin’ at me and Sara--we fired back. I fired...maybe...five shots? Warrick--uh, Warrick, he...got into the back of the van with two of the guys, the other got in through the passenger’s side. I called it in, tried to get their license plate, only got three digits--Zoey Delta Zero--and...here we are.”

“Thanks, Nick. Sara, anything to add? Were you able to get a clear view of the license plate?”

“No, I was just on my way in when the suspects ran out. I couldn’t get a clear view of the license plate, I had dodged a few bullets behind that red car parked over there...I saw them turn onto Charleston, and that was it.”

“Okay, thanks, guys. I’ll keep you posted...we’ll find him.”

Multitude of questions about the events Nick described swirl in my head, but I start with the most important one.

“Are you guys okay?”

Sara nods, then mutters something about calling Grissom while Nick finally lifts his head up, his eyes are red, his hands are still shaking.

“Yea-yeah, Greg, we’re fine,” Nick sighs. He puts his hand on my shoulder to reassure me, but the amount of pressure he puts on tells me he’s not exactly “fine.”

“I couldn’t stop them.”

“You did the right thing, calling it in--”

“But I should have stopped them, Greg! I just--”

He twists away, pacing a little back and forth, before unleashing his pent up anger on the trunk of the nearest police cruiser. I lifted my hand in an awkward, apologetic wave to a passing officer.

His back rises and falls like a balloon being filled with air, I could hear him attempt to steady his deep, shaky breathing. I’m reminded of the McBride case, how he stormed out of the police station after an intense interrogation. I place my hand on his shoulder, just as I did then.

“You did the right thing, man,” I repeat, squeezing my hand, as if to squeeze up the tension from his body like a sponge. It seems to work, the leather on his jacket loosens as his shoulder falls from my fingers.

He nods and looks back at me, a single tear sliding down his cheek before he quickly wipes it away. But there was no hiding the despair in his eyes. You’d have to be blind not to see the bond that Nick and Warrick have, a bond that was nearly severed last summer with the threat on Nick’s life. I saw firsthand how it tore Warrick apart, and now I’m seeing the other side of the coin.

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The past few months have been rough for Texas—and for the Texas Republican Party in particular. Republicans in the state led the charge to overturn the 2020 election results, centering their anti-democratic arguments on fantasies of stolen ballots and smothered voices. Then, a once-in-a-generation winter storm revealed the extent to which years-long GOP control had rotted the state’s infrastructure, providing a searing illustration of collapse that gripped the news-cycle and the nation. (And leading to Sen. Ted Cruz tucking tail for Cancun.) Just last week, Gov. Greg Abbott—in a fit of “neanderthal thinking,” as President Joe Biden said—launched a premature lifting of the state’s mask mandate, setting the stage for new Covid variants to wash across the population, the potential for new casualties of a pandemic the rest of the country is finally obtaining the upper hand over, and new reasons for voters who may be tilting in their partisan preferences to consider ousting the governor when he’s up for reelection in two years.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the state’s GOP—mimicking its national counterpart—has responded to these cascading failures not with sound policy proposals, but with a bushel of distractions related to America’s never-ending culture wars. The state’s oleaginous lieutenant governor has led the way, proposing legislation that would force publicly-funded entities and events to perform the national anthem. The Texas Republican Party’s official headquarters, hurdling headlong into cognitive dissonance, endorsed the first serious secession bill the country has seen since the Civil War. That measure has since picked up multiple Republican sponsors in the House.

All of which brings us to the latest front that Texas Republicans have launched in their war on reality. This month, one Texas Republican House member filed legislation to force the creation of a new project for supposedly “patriotic education.” Calling for the formation of an “1836 Project,” named after the year Texas declared independence from Mexico, the bill models itself after former President Donald Trump’s ill-starred “1776 Project.” Trump’s efforts—which barely lasted a week before the new administration obliterated it wholesale—were themselves a response to the New York Times’ “1619 Project,” which re-centered slavery and human bondage in the story of colonial America.

According to Rep. Tan Parker, the legislator who filed the bill, the proposal is “exclusively about celebrating Texas.” As Parker contended, “Many of our children are taught to denounce Texas history and do not understand what it means to be a virtuous citizen.” It’s unclear what Parker has in mind when he describes “virtuous” citizens, but it’s clear that the ultimate aim of the project is to simply whitewash Texas’s past of any critiques about the central role human enslavement played in the Texas Revolution. “It’s about reasserting whiteness and focusing on when white people ‘founded’ this state,” University of North Texas Professor Amanda Vickery told The Dallas Morning News.

Vickery has this correct. Parker’s paeans to “patriotic education” are little more than a smokescreen for reinforcing the kinds of myths and legends about the Texas Revolution that have played down slavery’s central, essential role in breaking the state off from Mexico. But if Parker wants to paper over the role of race and revolution in Texas—and to try to parley these myths to a new generation of Texas students—the least we can do is highlight just how the Republic of Texas became arguably the most anti-Black, and most avowedly white supremacist, country to have ever existed.

A few years before Texians, the term given to those who resided in the state at the time, launched their independence movement against the Mexican government in 1836, officials in Mexico City launched an historic salvo of their own. Decades before their counterparts in Washington, Mexican President Vicente Guerrero issued a proclamation: Mexico, Guerrero announced in 1829, would abolish slavery.

While abolitionists celebrated the decree (and rightly perceived it as a precedent that would eventually sweep through the rest of North America), the Anglos flooding into northeast Mexico stood shocked. Enticed by the region’s fertile cotton lands, white settlers from the U.S. had blanketed the region, looking to replicate the slave-centered economic boom in other parts of the American South. Led by those like the Austin family, Anglos pegged economic success in the Mexican region of Texas to a single commodity: enslaved humans. “Keeping slavery legal was a key component of the success of Moses Austin’s settlement; Anglo settlement of Mexican Texas would not have happened without it,” Emily McCullar wrote for The Texas Monthly. Following Guerrero’s decree, Anglos were “aghast.” As The Houston Chronicle summed, Stephen F. Austin, Moses’s son, was clear: “Texas could not survive without slavery.”

Those like Austin were clear; as the Texan founding father staked in 1833, “Texas must be a slave country.”

Led by the younger Austin, Anglos managed to lobby Mexican officials for a carve-out to allow them to continue enslaving thousands of Black residents, forcing them to work the cotton fields against their wills. (“The scheme simply redefined slavery as debt peonage,” the Chronicle continued.) But a seed had been planted, and Anglo slavers began worrying about their ability to extract wealth from those they enslaved. Those like Austin were clear; as the Texan founding father staked in 1833, “Texas must be a slave country.”

A few years later, the piling tinder gave way to revolution. While there was plenty of room for complaint about Mexican leader Santa Anna—the self-styled “Napoleon of the West” was hardly a democrat—demands for revolution caught fire amongst those with the most to lose: slaveholders. “The fact that calls for revolt bubbled up among Texans in the primary slave-holding region is no coincidence,” the Chronicle wrote. Thanks in no small part to Santa Anna’s incompetence, the Texians and Tejanos linking arms managed, over the course of a few short months, to steal independence from an anti-slavery republic.

Around the same time, legislators in Texas began hammering out a new constitution for the breakaway region—a constitution that, in language clear as any, illustrates how the Republic of Texas became the first true slave empire in the Americas, surpassing even the United States. Indeed, while modern Texas Republicans like to view the Texas Revolution as a spiritual successor to the American Revolution, it’s far more accurate to describe it as a precursor to the Confederacy. To wit, the Texas Constitution explicitly prohibited its new government from ever emancipating slaves. Moreover, the constitution expressly barred any Texan from freeing other humans they enslaved, unless they pledged to evict them from the new nation entirely. “No free person of African descent, either in whole or in part, shall be permitted to reside permanently in the Republic, without the consent of Congress,” their Constitution read, effectively assuring that Texian slaveholders would never have to worry about free Black residents.  

This language had an immediate impact on both the state’s economy and on the swelling ranks of those enslaved on these shores. In less than a decade of independence, the numbers of Black residents enslaved exploded, growing some 500 percent. And the driving force for the race into American embrace – the U.S. annexed Texas in 1845—likewise centered on slavery. Texians knew full well that a regrouped Mexico could steamroll the slave republic, and enforce its abolitionist writ on the region once more. The only thing saving Texians’ ability to enslave other humans was joining the United States. But even that effort eventually faltered. Just fifteen years after annexation, Texas once more declared its intent to secede – this time, as part of yet another would-be slave empire. As Texas’s 1861 declaration of secession made clear, the state existed as “a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery – the servitude of the African to the white race.”

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DURAN DURAN rinde tributo a DAVID BOWIE con su cover de "FIVE YEARS"

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“FIVE YEARS” YA DISPONIBLE EN PLATAFORMAS DIGITALES

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Las leyendas del pop multi-premiadas y aclamadas internacionalmente DURAN DURAN iniciaron sus celebraciones de su 40 aniversario volviendo al lugar donde todo comenzó con una impresionante versión del clásico atemporal de David Bowie “Five Years”

El líder de Duran Duran, Simon Le Bon, revela: "Mi vida como adolescente giraba en torno a David Bowie. Él es la razón por la que comencé a escribir canciones. Una parte de mí todavía no puede creer en su muerte, pero tal vez sea porque hay una parte de mí donde todavía está vivo y siempre estará… Cuando compramos el disco en vinilo de Ziggy Stardust, nuestra primera prueba de su perfección fue la canción “Five Years”. No puedo explicar lo honrado que me siento que Duran Duran tenga la oportunidad de interpretar a este ícono y colocar nuestro nombre junto a Bowie para esta conmemoración de su música ".

Escucha Five Years de Duran Duran  Aqui.

La canción es parte del muy esperado evento tributo de streaming mundial que tuvo lugar en conmemoración del que hubiera sido el cumpleaños 74 de Bowie y el quinto aniversario de su fallecimiento.

Duran Duran presentó “Five Years” en vivo en lo que fue una experiencia virtual cinematográfica espectacular e innovadora: A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day!  Una parte de lo recaudado se destinará a Save The Children, una organización benéfica importante para David Bowie.

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El lanzamiento de la canción es solo una de las 40 iniciativas emocionantes que se están llevando a cabo para celebrar la rica y colorida carrera de cuatro décadas de la banda, bajo el lema "Duran Duran 40".

SOBRE “A BOWIE CELEBRATION: ¡JUST FOR ONE DAY!

Comenzando el 8 de enero a las 11pm ARG/CH, el espectáculo estuvo  disponible para que los poseedores de boletos de todo el mundo lo disfruten en vivo y durante 24 horas después de su transmisión inicial.

Producida por Mike Garson en colaboración con Stacey Sher y Kerry Brown junto a Rolling Live Studios, A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day! contó con actuaciones de artistas como: el líder de Culture Club, Boy George, el líder de la banda Pretty Reckless Taylor Momsen, el galardonado comediante y estrella de After Life Ricky Gervais, el supergrupo Ground Control con Dave Navarro (Jane's Addiction), Corey Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour), Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters) y Chris Chaney (Jane's Addiction), Gary Barlow (Take That), Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), William Corgan (The Smashing Pumpkins), el actor ganador del Oscar Gary Oldman, Gavin Rossdale (Bush), Perry Farrell (Jane's Addiction), Joe Elliott (Def Leppard), la cantante ganadora del Grammy Macy Gray, Ian Astbury (The Cult), Lzzy Hale (Halestorm), Gail Ann Dorsey (David Bowie, Lenny Kravitz), Bernard Fowler (The Rolling Stones), Corey Glover (Living Color), la ganadora del Tony Awards Lena Hall, Judith Hill (ganadora del Grammy por 20 Feet From Stardom), Charlie Sexton (David Bowie, Bob Dylan), Adam Lambert, YUNGBLUD, la tres veces nominada al Grammy Andra Day, el actor y músico Michael C. Hall, Ian Hunter, la cantautora y virtuosa guitarrista Anna Calvi, el galardonado Atticus Ross, la vocalista de Kind Heaven Orchestra Etty Lau Farrel y la vocalista de How to Destroy Angels Mariqueen Maandig Reznor

Otros artistas que se unieron al streaming mundial: Everett Bradley, Matt Chamberlain, Ava Cherry, Richard Cottle, Greg Errico, Mark Guiliana, Henry Hey, Emir Ksasan, Tony Levin, Geoff MacCormack, Andy Newmark, y Pablo Rosario, la banda de Bowie de su última gira Mike Garson, Earl Slick, Sterling Campbell, Gerry Leonard y Catherine Russell, junto a Zack Alford, Carlos Alomar, Kevin Armstrong, Alan Childs, Robin Clark, Emm Gryner, Omar Hakim, Clare Hirst, Erdal Kızılçay, Tim Lefebvre, Martha Mooke, Holly Palmer, Mark Plati, Carmine Rojas, Charlie Sexton, el productor histórico de Bowie y músico Tony Visconti, más invitados especiales como Nandi Bushell, Mr Hudson, Gaby Moreno, Joe Sumner, Simon Westbrook, The Section Quartet y más.

¡Más noticias de Duran Duran por venir!

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Ten incomplete thoughts on UFC 216

Due to work, I missed the main card except for the main event which I managed to get home in time for. Anyways here’s what I got based off of the prelims and the FX card.

1-  Demetrious Johnson is our ugly baby

This is a Jerry Jones-ism so forgive me but I think it fits if you think about it. Have you ever seen a couple that just had a baby---and the baby's ugly? To everyone on the outside, the baby is absolutely hideous looking but to THEM, to those parents, it's the most beautiful thing ever because its THEIR baby. Demetrious Johnson is our ugly baby. For some fight fans and casual consumers, Demetrious Johnson is a midget who has boring fights against limited competition with a weird personality. He lacks a demographic, a definable fanbase by which an organization can capitalize on his gifts. He's destined to be the guy or the man who fight fans have no interest in. His mere PRESENCE on a card or an event signifies skippable to them. He is almost a fan repellant at this point. He is, in many ways, an ugly baby.

But he's our ugly baby. He's the best fighter in the world as of right now. Where as other see boring fights over limited competition; we see dominant performances vs good fighters who would be great in a world where he doesn't exist. Whereas they see the hit but don't get hit style as boring, we see endless activity through a variety of channels designed to minimize risk BUT still promote action. He finishes fights. He challenges himself to be better. His dominant reign has never featured two fights alike and while you can be bored with the dominance, it's still dominance. It's still one man dominating a host of opponents of various shapes, sizes and styles. All of which unique, all of which remind you that what you're seeing is special and what everybody else sees is irrelevant. Who gives a shit if he's an ugly baby, he's YOUR baby.

Mighty Mouse, in a climate where fighting often and fighting consistently on TV isn't really worth as much as it should, will never be respected for what he is. He's our ugly baby; the thing only we can truly appreciate. You just gotta go with it.

2- The Uniqueness of Combat Sports; Good and Bad; was on display.

We begin with the good. The 1 v 1 nature of MMA (and boxing and etc) makes it so much more free flowing as to the how and why we get the matchups. There is no set schedule---so when Derrick Lewis hours before the show can't go? You just get another guy on display! Out comes Walt Harris who had a fight scheduled previously who gets bumped up the card. That's the fun thing about MMA; it's never always laid out to perfection but 9/10, it ends up being just fine. Instead of not getting a Werdum fight, we get Werdum vs Walt Harris on like six hours notice. That's really cool.

And the negative? Well in no other sport would an obvious matchup not happen on account of money. The brackets are what they are, the Yankees and Red Sox don't immediately get to play one another in the ALCS. Who wins is who wins. Tony Ferguson vs Conor McGregor is the fight to make under all categories except for one----which happens to be the biggest one. At the risk of upsetting the Nate Diaz fans, imagine if the Lakers last year took the place of the Spurs to ensure that the NBA would garner the biggest ratings for their playoffs. It'd be stupid---but MMA is a stupid sport sometimes. So we'll sit and wait to determine whether the right title fight will take place or whether the most economical title fight will take place. Either one will do.

3- Mighty should SERIOUSLY think about retiring.

There's a theory that flyweight would've had a better chance of surviving had it not been for Demetrious Johnson, the aforementioned ugly baby of MMA. Let's test that. Mighty Mouse should seriously consider pulling a GSP. Just take off for a while, work on the Fox team/whatever network is next team and provide analysis from a distance. When the opportunity arises for him to come back aka when there's a title fight that makes sense, he should return. Let's see if HE is the problem of it the division itself is a problem.

4- Tony Ferguson is a once in a decade type fighter

No, I don't mean that in the sense that he's a prodigious athlete or some special draw. He's not Conor or Ronda or whomever else has been tabbed with such a label.  I'm talking about a guy who is a fighting freak; one of those fucked up type of guys who has these fights that the average human being couldn't fathom and even pro fighters would try to avoid. He began the third round shouting at Kevin Lee about how this was going to be his round and he legit just marched dude down, ate whatever fire was coming his way, got up from takedowns and then when shit got hairy on the ground, he went elbows into armbar into triangle. Tony Ferguson fights with this unrelenting confidence and this air of inevitability. "At some point, I'm going to get you. And when I do? You aren't going to do shit about it." Ferguson isn't just a great fighter, he's a savage sadistic will breaker. You don't see guys like that come along, not in today's MMA where fans think fighters play it safe more than ever before.

5- Greg Jackson had a bad night.

I didn't see any of the main card fights beyond the main event but this goes to the Duquesnoy and the Ray Borg fight. In the former, it felt like any adjustments after the first round were nil for Duquesnoy. Unorthodox only works when fighters are afraid of it and you execute it with near perfection. The unorthodox offense and footwork of Duquesnoy was figured out pretty quickly by Stamman and the adjustments were....I unno. MAYBE Duquesnoy got some great advice and he just didn't execute on it. His third round was abysmal from start to finish and outside of Stamman nearly giving him the fight by virtue of being an idiot, it was not the performance we expected from a top prospect. As for Ray Borg? WHEN has clinching with Mighty Mouse ever worked. I watched a bushel of Demetrious Johnson fights in a row and pointed out that the clinch is where he excels---so Borg clinched and wrestled. Even if Ray Borg isn't a good striker, you have a better chance of starting something on the feet. Furthermore, you HAVE to tell your fighter to never go for the neck on Mighty Mouse. Everytime he takes guys down, they chase that desperation guillo because he feeds it to them. Every single write up I read involved some form of "Borg chases a guillotine" but that never works. NEVER. The gameplan didn't seem to give Borg a single shot.  Also felt like Lando Vannata engaged far too much vs Bobby Green BUT I'm not gonna hold dude responsible for that.

6- I think Kevin Lee is making a right choice jumping up to 170 lbs

I made the comparison of Gray Maynard for Kevin Lee at 155 lbs. I think that's still apt---but I think Lee going UP in weight is the right idea. Kevin Lee said he weighed 185 lbs or more vs Tony Ferguson and so that gives you an accurate window of what MOST 155 lbers are weighing after rehydration and etc etc etc.  Lee will not be at that big of a size and strength disadvantage vs guys at 170 lbs. Look at how MOST 155ers who have moved up have been able to hold their own vs genuine welterweights. The difference is not that massive and so I figure Lee with better cardio will pop into that top 10 discussion.

7- I need a good reason why there's no 165 and 175 lb divisions

Just curious what the excuses are. I understand it might not curtail weight cuts but it can't hurt for sure. Unless you're going to tell me 185 lbers are going to try to kill themselves to make 175 lbs but if thats a concern, just establish a weight percentage rule. Weigh more than 15% of your intended weight class? Move up or move out! If you're concerned about MMA watering itself down then I mean are you not realizing the quality of talent between 155 lbs and 185 lbs? That's a stupid excuse. The quality of fights will improve because people aren't dying to make weight that intensely. You're at least TRYING something. Two more titles? 99% of you people don't even care who the champ is anyways if he's not a star so how does it impact your ability to enjoy MMA?

8- Brad Tavares is quietly becoming really good.

I've been harsh on Tavares because I feel like he's better than what he's put out recently. Over the past two fights though, he's shown some serious improvements. He's more aggressive while still being his usual composed and patient self. He's got a great jab, he can wrestle with just about anybody. In many ways it felt like he always knew his chin was a little questionable and so he fought to protect that. Recently though it feels like he's more aggressive than usual and that's a good thing. I just think he needs to get that finish which has eluded him so far in the UFC.

9- Magomed Bibulatov losing is a bummer.

Yes yes yes yes. I know. Try to hear me out here for a second will ya? The one thing we keep hearing about guys at 125 lbs is that they're all basically the same guy. The idea that they're all just fighters fighting the most boring guy in the world. Bibulatov had a teensy bit of buzz on him and John Moraga, a dude who at this point is your gatekeeper to the stars, smelted him. Woooof.

10- The Anik, Rogan and Cormier team seemed to have an idea of how to work together.

Don't know if it was the week or whatever the case may be BUT thesse guys were all on their game. Cormier seemed to fit in better and have a better understanding of what he should or should not be calling and their jokes actually seemed to work for once. Most of all, all three guys seemed to be in the zone with very little moments of  "Wow that was stupid!" Good night fo rthis new commentary squad.

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Utqiagvik: Residents of a northern Alaska neighborhood are living to vote on whether to impose the voice’s first tax on most sodas and other sweetened drinks. The Anchorage Day-to-day News reported Sunday that voters in Utqiagvik are scheduled to vote Tuesday on the proposed tax on drinks sold in the city. The proposed ordinance would impose a 1-cent tax per 1 ounce of soda, energy drinks and sugar-sweetened drinks sold in the neighborhood on the voice’s northern tip. Officials said the tax on a 12-ounce can of soda would perhaps presumably be 12 cents. A bottle conserving 20 ounces would perhaps presumably be taxed 20 cents. Officials said the tax doesn't quilt 100% fruit or vegetable juices, milk merchandise, medicinal drinks, baby system, weight-loss drinks, or alcohol.

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Yuma: College of Arizona scientists are embarking on a multiyear find of the Yuma plan in the wake of ultimate year’s E. coli outbreak. The neighborhood will doubtless be partnering with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, voice agriculture officers and local growers to interrogate on the atmosphere and practices in the nation’s “chilly climate vegetable capital.” The College of Arizona announced the difficulty in a release. Researchers with the UofA Cooperative Extension hope to return away with solutions for growers. They're going to score samples of water, sediment and animal fecal subject. The Centers for Illness Control and Prevention came upon a 2018 outbreak linked to romaine lettuce was as soon as to blame for five deaths and the sickening of 200 others. The lettuce was as soon as traced to Yuma. Investigators said the micro organism unfold thru depraved irrigation water.

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Palm Springs: A Southern California resident has been hospitalized after being stung by bees bigger than 100 times. The Barren plan Sun reported Saturday that the person was as soon as transported to a wisely being facility after being stung in Banning. The California Division of Forestry and Fire Security said the person was as soon as stung around 12: 25 p.m. Saturday in the city about 23 miles west of Palm Springs. Authorities said one other person had a little want of stings and refused therapy by responders on the scene about 1 mile north of Interstate 10. The second victim drove to the wisely being facility. Neither of the victims was as soon as identified and their scientific conditions were now not identified Saturday.

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Estes Park: Flora and fauna officers are warning of us to retain their distance from elk sooner or later of their mating season after a bull charged of us, knocked a girl down and a glorious deal of times butted her with its antlers. A video on 9News.com confirmed the elk working toward of us and knocking the girl down Thursday stop to the visitor heart in Estes Park stop to Rocky Mountain National Park. The girl escaped after public works employee Brian Berg drove a pickup on the sidewalk and acquired between her and the elk. The elk then rammed the front of the truck. A spokesman for Colorado Parks and Flora and fauna, Jason Clay, told KDVR-TV that bull elks aggressively wrestle over their breeding rights. He said of us must give elk plan even in developed areas and allow them to cross away on their possess.

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New Fortress: County Executive Matt Meyer was as soon as the featured speaker at an match Friday sooner or later of which dozens of county cops confirmed up to say over ongoing contract negotiations between the federal government and the local police union. The county police’s contract expired in March, and negotiations had been underway for nearly just a few year. The negotiations are at loggerheads over wisely being care charges. Friday was as soon as on the very least the second time cops roasted Meyer in public. In July, his face was as soon as placed on a immense inflatable rat out of doors the county’s ice cream competition by picketing police. Jonathan Yard, president of Fraternal Affirm of Police Lodge 5, has said the county has offered contract provides that would perhaps presumably consequence in an overall loss of wisely being care benefits for officers and increased wisely being care charges. Meyer has said every officer was as soon as offered a raise. New Fortress County employs bigger than 300 cops, and the department is one amongst the most costly aspects of local government.

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Washington: Residents voiced their considerations about living conditions at a Southeast D.C. condo advanced on Friday evening, WUSA-TV reported. For years, tenants of the Congress Park condo advanced in D.C.’s Congress Heights neighborhood possess complained about mildew and rodent droppings of their housing units. D.C. Councilmember Trayon White held a gathering on the Malcolm X Replacement Center to listen to to considerations about the voice of the housing advanced. The councilmember was as soon as joined by representatives of the D.C. Division of Client and Regulatory Affairs and the D.C. Situation of enterprise of the Attorney Usual as wisely. White admitted the residents’ considerations in Congress Park would perhaps even just still be addressed immediate. However, tenants did now not get a sort of solutions from Congress Park’s property owner and supervisor Friday evening. D.C. tax recordsdata enlighten a neighborhood named “Southeast Washington Pattern Friends LP” owns Congress Park, but they did now not appear like on the assembly. The property supervisor, Edgewood Management of Gaithersburg, Maryland, moreover looked as if it would be absent on the assembly. WUSA-TV emailed the corporate to request a observation relating to the complaints residents possess made about repairs at Congress Park.

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Titusville: Carrying gloves to set at bay enamel and claws, firefighters gingerly extricated a cat from the engine compartment of a Mercedes-Benz on Friday morning. The tom cat rescue came about at a home on Las Palmas Drive, in a neighborhood north of La Cita Country Club. The grey cat, Suba Mae, escaped injury, Titusville Fire Battalion Chief Greg Sutton said. “The owner states that she believes the cat bought out an open door final evening,” Sutton said. “The cat’s now not an outdoor cat. And when she went out having a interrogate, she heard the cat meowing beneath the auto.” After being alerted by Suba Mae’s meows, his owner called an emergency dispatcher for aid. “As we tried to get the cat from underneath (the auto), it moved additional and possess was sort of caught. That’s when we had to open the hood and get in that formula to get the cat out,” Sutton said.”It’s something various each day. Most of us mediate cats are getting caught in timber — and I mediate we’ve had as many in cars as we’ve had in the timber,” he said.

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Atlanta: A Georgia-based entirely church neighborhood has returned sacred land in Ohio to the Wyandotte Nation. The Atlanta Journal-Structure reported that the United Methodist Church World Ministries transferred the deed sooner or later of a Sept. 21 ceremony and procession. The land had been held in belief for 176 years by the ministries neighborhood, based entirely in Atlanta. The land – about 3 acres – involves a stone church that dates to 1824 and a cemetery in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. The manager of the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma, Billy Buddy, called the land switch “enormous.” He said students, tribal contributors and elders possess visited the positioning to possess a connection to their ancestral land and history. The Wyandotte Nation involves bigger than 6,600 tribal electorate. Most dwell in Oklahoma.

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Honolulu: An legal reliable representing a neighborhood of Hawaii residents adverse to sort in an Oahu beach park said he plans to opinion a court docket injunction against the venture. The Honolulu Essential person-Advertiser reported Sunday that Tim Vandeveer has filed a lawsuit and expects to purchase additional lawful action against sort inside Waimanalo Bay Sea inch Park. About 140 demonstrators opposing the improvement gathered Saturday on the park’s woodland plan identified as Sherwood Forest, which covers 74 acres. A city spokesman said Honolulu desires to obvious a local to draw a multipurpose field, playground and 11-stall automobile parking zone on the positioning. The official said the $1.43 million venture is a compromise from the city’s 2012 belief to draw a $32 million sports activities advanced and 470-stall automobile parking zone.

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Boise: Officials from Idaho and Taiwan possess signed a two-year, $576 million deal calling for Taiwan flour mills to steal Idaho wheat. The Idaho Press reported the deal requires the purchase of 1.8 million metric many of wheat. Kuo-Shu Fan, director overall of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Situation of enterprise, said Taiwan is Idaho’s second-largest agricultural export destination and Idaho is Taiwan’s sixth-largest export destination. Gov. Brad Runt said he'll lead his first official commerce mission as governor in October to Taiwan’s capital, Taipei. He said the Taiwan Flour Mills Association has introduced delegations to Idaho since 1970. The volume of wheat that Taiwan mills will purchase over the next two years is such as the amount purchased all around the final two years.

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Tinley Park: Two Chicago-plan nonprofit organizations possess collaborated to draw handmade beds for underprivileged formative years and are shopping for more volunteers. David King, president of the Oak Forest chapter of Sleep in Magnificent Peace, said that he and volunteers possess built about 100 beds for formative years in want since he took over the neighborhood in March. Steve Vick, vice president of Tinley Park Lions Club, told the Day-to-day Southtown the neighborhood decided to associate with King’s group and aid them with establishing beds to worth their 70th anniversary. King well-known that Schillings in Mokena donated the inch for building the beds. However other sources, akin to pillows and comforters, were purchased. Vick said their neighborhood is repeatedly shopping for contemporary contributors. He well-known they meet on the third Tuesday of every and every month.

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Evansville: Officials said work will doubtless be completed in November on a venture for permitting the cross of a restored World Battle II naval vessel to a more outstanding space along the Ohio River in downtown Evansville. Crews are in actuality building a company heart and barges so the LST 325 troop touchdown ship can cross to the feeble space of the Tropicana Evansville on line casino boat. Evansville Port Authority chairman Pat Wathen told the Evansville Courier & Press that the $3.6 million venture is on course and inside price range after excessive preliminary building bids delayed work. The ship took fragment in the 1944 D-Day landings in France and has been based entirely in Evansville since 2005. LST 325 board member Chris Donahue said the ship’s cross is deliberate for April.

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Des Moines: The Rev. William Joensen has been ordained because the 10th bishop to lead the Roman Catholic Diocese of Des Moines. The Des Moines Register reported that bigger than 1,500 parishioners witnessed the ordination Friday at St. Francis of Assisi Church in West Des Moines, the diocese’s largest. Pope Francis chosen Joensen, 59, an Iowa native, to interchange feeble Bishop Richard Pates, who retired after conserving the role for bigger than a decade. In his inaugural address, Joensen addressed young of us, asserting that “one of the significant church’s actions in the previous merit reproach” and that reproach of that by younger parishioners was as soon as to be expected. However he implored them to “be open to the info passed down from technology to technology.”

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Emporia: Emporia Narrate College students who are too exhausted to get home can now discover beds on campus. The college is placing in two sleeping pods designed by a San Diego-based entirely company. The soundproof rooms are relatively of wider than a twin bed, with a nightstand and a charging voice. Curtains and window blinds provide privacy. College spokeswoman Gwen Larson said students in overall are seen sleeping in public locations akin to chairs or with their head on a table. She said the sleep pods are safer locations for better sleep. One pod was as soon as installed just as of late in the campus library and one other will doubtless be installed at Memorial Union. The Kansas Metropolis Essential person reported students stationed stop to each and every pod will take a look at students in and be determined that that the majority effective one student at a time is utilizing the sleeping pod.

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Wurtland: An in a single day fire in a barn has killed thousands of animals in conjunction with 3,000 quails. News retailers reported the fire broke out at Bonzo Farm early Saturday. A assertion from Greenup Volunteer Fire Division said more than one fire departments responded to the blaze, which enthusiastic several barns. Raceland Police said moreover the quails, 1,000 chukars and 100 chickens were moreover killed in the blaze. Neighbor Kayla Wilburn said she would perhaps even undoubtedly feel the warmth from the fire at her home and the flames were about 80 feet in the air. The trigger of the fire is beneath investigation. Bonzo Farm was as soon as purchased by the Bonzo family around 1906. Wilburn said the barn was as soon as an emblem in the neighborhood.

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Belle Chasse: The federal government is giving a Louisiana parish a $4 million grant to aid enhance the water infrastructure. In a news release, the Division of Commerce says the cash is being given to Plaquemines Parish to present protection to firms from pure mess ups. The grant from the Division’s Economic Pattern Administration will hunch toward building of a recent raw water intake pump voice for the Belle Chasse Water Treatment Plant. The cash comes from a teach federal program designed to aid pay for disaster aid and recovery because Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, as wisely as wildfires and other pure mess ups. The grant would perhaps even just still be matched with bigger than $1 million in local cash.

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East Machias: An environmental neighborhood said this can release thousands of salmon correct into a river next month as fragment of an effort to aid grow the population of the species. The Downeast Salmon Federation said about 250,000 juvenile Atlantic salmon will doubtless be released into the East Machias River. The venture is fragment of the World Year of the Salmon effort that is taking plan in various nations. The Atlantic salmon is a highlight of conservation in Maine since it’s listed beneath the Endangered Species Act in the US. The fish were as soon as great in U.S. rivers, but populations plummeted because of dams, overfishing and pollution. They now return to perfect a handful of rivers in Maine, in conjunction with the Penobscot River, numbering in overall in the a complete bunch.

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Assateague Island National Seashore: An Assateague Island horse died over the weekend after being struck by an official park automobile, constant with a National Park Provider news release. The incident came about Sunday morning when a chestnut mare identified as Connie’s Lady was as soon as standing on the curve of Bayberry Drive in the predawn hours. Officials said a park automobile struck the horse’s hindquarter before daybreak. The park employee was as soon as now not injured in the collision, constant with the discharge, and the incident remains beneath investigation. Connie’s Lady was as soon as born in April 2018 to mare Ms. Macky, with the doubtless sire being Yankee. The National Park Provider said her band frequented the developed plan and campground of Assateague Island National Seashore and Assateague Island Narrate Park. Connie’s Lady is the 34th Assateague Island horse to be hit by a automobile and killed since 1982, the park said, with one other 17 injured in automobile collisions.

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Lawrence: Crews are starting the job of restoring service to the roughly 150 homes and firms whose gasoline service was as soon as disconnected after a leak. Columbia Gas said Saturday all residents displaced by the leak can now return to their homes. Technicians will birth going door-to-door to draw security assessments and relight gasoline appliances. Town is still reeling from a unfavorable assortment of gasoline explosions and fires a year ago. The corporate said Friday’s leak was as soon as an remoted incident in the side road and there was as soon as no affect to customers’ homes.

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Southfield: Oakland County wisely being officers are confirming two contemporary circumstances of rabies in skunks indicate in Southfield and Troy. The confirmations educate a legend final week that a skunk’s carcass moreover indicate in Southfield, supreme north of Detroit, tested obvious for rabies. In March, officers said a skunk in Rochester Hills was as soon as confirmed to possess rabies. Rochester Hills is northeast of Southfield. Residents are counseled to preserve a ways off from skunks, bats, raccoons, foxes, and stray cats and dogs. Rabies symptoms in animals consist of overall illness, swallowing problems and excessive drooling, sluggish and novel circulate, no obvious disaster of folks and aggression. It'll also be deadly to folks after symptoms birth to happen. Deaths will also be completed without with a vaccine administered straight after publicity.

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St. Paul: Police said there were six drug overdoses in the city in the span of just a few hours final weekend. The police department said in a Fb put up Saturday that investigators suspect in some circumstances of us thought they were utilizing cocaine on the replacement hand it’s doubtless fentanyl or one other drug was as soon as mixed in. KARE-TV reported that the six overdoses came about over a 21/2-hour duration. The incidents caused police to subject an alert to remind the final public of us can’t be prosecuted for looking out for aid for someone who overdoses.

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Starkville: Agriculture consultants said most of this year’s corn slit in Mississippi is in dazzling-to-lawful condition. The Mississippi Narrate College Extension Provider said in a news release that the voice’s farmers planted 35% more acres in corn this year in contrast to 2018. Corn planting was as soon as delayed by two to three weeks because of heavy rains sooner or later of the spring. The extension service said when corn can’t be planted on the linked old time, farmers in overall swap to soybeans. However, this year’s market outlook was as soon as stronger for corn. The news release said the voice’s corn harvest was as soon as sluggish in August because of a later-maturing slit, on the replacement hand it has long gone immediate in September. The U.S. Division of Agriculture estimated most of Mississippi’s corn slit is in dazzling-to-lawful condition. Fair 7% is taken into story wonderful, and 12% is either sad or very sad.

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St. Louis: The St. Louis Wheel, a 200-foot-great Ferris wheel, opened Monday at Union Space, where a recent aquarium advanced is expected to open in December. The Ferris wheel lights up with 1.6 million LED lights. It involves 42 climate-controlled gondolas that can retain up to eight of us each and every. Rides final about 15 minutes and fee $15 for adults and $10 for formative years. The redevelopment of the feeble prepare voice advanced moreover involves an 18-gap mini-golf route, a carousel and an frail-long-established soda fountain. Union Space for years housed a shopping heart. However its reputation waned, prompting redevelopment into an aquarium and other points of interest.

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Billings: A semi hauling a trailer fleshy of roping steers caught fire on Interstate 94 in southern Montana, but now not one amongst the cattle was as soon as injured. The Montana Highway Patrol told The Billings Gazette the motive force was as soon as able to safely purchase away all 103 head of cattle. House residents, some of them on horseback, helped preserve them off the side road till someone volunteered the exercise of a stop-by pen. The cattle had been loaded in Billings on Monday morning and had traveled about 85 miles when one other motorist spotted the fire in the front axle and acquired the motive force to drag over stop to Hysham. The fire in the break melted fragment of the trailer. Trooper Richard Drake said the motorist aged a fireplace extinguisher whereas the motive force unloaded the steers, that are aged in rodeo competitions.

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Louisville: The Formative years Hunter Training Roar scheduled for Oct. 13 at Platte River Narrate Park provides rivals a chance to hone their shooting abilities and be taught more about wildlife, survival abilities and hunter accountability. The rivals is for youths ages 11 and older who possess successfully completed hunter training and now not yet graduated from excessive college. The project will feature archery, shotgun, muzzleloader, hunter security path, orienteering and a hunter accountability examination. Competitors can register on-line at OutdoorNebraska.org. Contact Christy Christiansen at 402-471-5547 or christy.christiansen@nebraska.gov for more data. The project will doubtless be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the Roger G. Sykes Out of doorways Heritage Training Complex. The park sits southeast of Ashland and west of Louisville.

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Las Vegas: Police are investigating a damage-in and vandalism on the Republican Celebration’s headquarters for metro Las Vegas. Officials said a glass door was as soon as kicked in Friday evening, papers were strewn inside the workplace and a espresso-maker was as soon as lacking. Nevada Republican Celebration Chairman Michael J. McDonald said he hoped that these to blame were apprehended “before they commit any other acts of violence …” McDonald said he suspected that “leftist activists” were gradual the damage-in, but Clark County Republican Celebration Chair Dave Sajdak he didn’t mediate the damage-in was as soon as politically motivated.

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Concord: As the autumn trying season will get underway, the New Hampshire Food Bank is again amassing donated deer and moose meat for distribution to bigger than 425 food pantries, soup kitchens and other facilities. Closing year, the Hunt for the Hungry program took in bigger than 2,000 kilos of meat. Hunters who participate on this device must process the meat and possess it stamped by a USDA popular butcher. Bruce Wilson, the food monetary institution’s director of operations, said such donations get a mountainous want. He said venison is extremely unique. The food monetary institution is now not accepting endure, bird or wild game birds. Deer season for archers began earlier this month; the season for firearms starts in November. Moose trying season starts in October.

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Atlantic Metropolis: A lightning strike precipitated energy to cross out in numerous Atlantic Metropolis casinos for several hours early Sunday. Atlantic Metropolis Electrical told the Press of Atlantic Metropolis a energy line was as soon as struck rapidly after 1 a.m., leaving about 9,400 customers without energy. Town’s fire department said it responded to calls from Bally’s Atlantic Metropolis, Borgata Resort On line casino & Spa, Ocean On line casino Resort and Resorts On line casino Resort where patrons were caught in elevators. Workers at Harrah’s were able to get a person out of a caught elevator. Gamblers went on social media to report strolling thru darkened on line casino floors. They were unlikely to lose cash from slot machines due to the the outage. The machines exercise battery-operated, uninterruptible energy provides. Loyalty program playing cards moreover legend all play.

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Albuquerque: Authorities said bronze shoes at a veterans’ memorial intended to of us who served in the U.S. war on terror had been stolen. New Mexico Veterans Memorial Foundation vice president James Lehner said the bronze shoes were stolen Friday evening. Michael Burd with the New Mexico Veterans Memorial Board of Directors said the five pairs of bronze shoes are worth thousands of bucks. Lehner says thieves moreover took an M16 and helmet that was as soon as on the Vietnam memorial. Albuquerque police and the New Mexico Veterans Memorial said no arrests had been made.

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New York Metropolis: Hundreds of runners took fragment in the annual Tunnel to Towers 5K Flee and Dawdle on Sunday. The bustle retraces the footsteps of Stephen Siller, a firefighter who was as soon as killed on 9/11 after working in fleshy equipment thru the Battery Tunnel to ground zero. A foundation in Siller’s establish raises cash for wounded veterans and households of fallen first responders.

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Greenville: Dan Gerlach, the meantime chancellor of East Carolina College, was as soon as placed on administrative leave after photos were printed of him at a bar with students. College of North Carolina Period in-between President Invoice Roper said in a assertion that Gerlach was as soon as placed on leave “in gentle of studies from this previous weekend.” Gerlach said in a assertion on Sunday that he went to a local pub with two adult male acquaintances on Sept. 25. The assertion said movies and photos shared on social media enlighten him “interacting with college-veteran young adults and taking selfies.” The agenda for a determined telephone assembly of the UNC Board of Governors on Tuesday involves a closed assembly to focus on about an govt personnel subject. It’s now not obvious if that dialogue considerations Gerlach, who was as soon as appointed in April.

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Minot: Sara Medalen, who helps grade college students combating reading and arithmetic, has been named the North Dakota Teacher of the Year for 2020. Medalen is a reading and math interventionist at Minot’s Sunnyside Elementary College. Medalen moreover started capabilities to aid reading, leadership sort, and bodily fitness. Gov. Doug Burgum and Narrate College Superintendent Kirsten Baesler announced the award Monday. Baesler and Burgum will retain a celebration for Medalen in mid-October.

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Toledo: The Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority board of administrators voted to rename Toledo Advise Airport after Toledo native and retired NASA flight director Eugene Kranz. The Blade in Toledo reported the board has joined the Toledo Metropolis Council in vote casting to establish the flexibility the Eugene F. Kranz Toledo Advise Airport. Kranz, a feeble fighter pilot, had a 34-year profession with NASA and was as soon as flight director for the Apollo 11 and Apollo 13 moon missions. Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz said he casually mentioned the establish swap before broaching the subject on a radio voice in June and the premise won traction. The Federal Aviation Administration must approve officially renaming the airport before the swap will doubtless be made.

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Oklahoma Metropolis: Hundreds of of us visited a $132 million park in downtown Oklahoma Metropolis where a weekend sizable-opening included a free dwell performance by Grammy-a success rockers Kings of Leon. Metropolis officers said 28,000 of us attended the enlighten at Scissortail Park, which opened to the final public Friday. More company streamed thru Saturday to ascertain up on out workout routines courses and sample food vans. The park that can in the break quilt 70 acres involves a lake, performance phases and trails. It’s moreover home to a clone of the “Survivor Tree” that lived thru the 1995 Oklahoma Metropolis bombing. The clone will doubtless be transplanted to interchange the common American elm as soon as it dies.

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Salem: Authorities said a prepare derailed north of Salem early Sunday, breaking a utility pole that resulted in energy outages and inflicting a little fire. Michael Williams, a spokesman for Portland and Western Railroad, said by email that there had been no injuries and no risky provides were enthusiastic. He said the trigger is beneath investigation. He said the incident enthusiastic the first eight cars of a 29-automobile prepare and came about at Hopmere. Of the eight cars, he said three carried wood pulp, three carried potassium sulfate and two were empty inch cars. Fire officers in a release said a little, smoldering fire started in the brush because the downed traces and was as soon as extinguished.

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Bloomsburg: Authorities said three of us were injured in a helicopter rupture at a voice dazzling. WNEP-TV reported a pilot and two passengers were in the helicopter when it crashed Saturday about 7: 30 p.m. in the auto parking zone of the fairground. The dazzling was as soon as filled with of us on the time of the rupture. No one was as soon as injured on the ground. The three of us aboard the helicopter were taken to a wisely being facility. Bloomsburg police said the pilot’s condition was as soon as first listed as basic but has been upgraded to stable. The two passengers had minor injuries. Police said the helicopter would purchase fairgoers for a instant rush. The rupture hooked the framing and shattered the windows of several vehicles in the auto parking zone. The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Security Board are investigating the rupture.

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Newport: The Aquidneck Island Planning Commission has scheduled a dialogue board Wednesday to focus on about coyote habits and the method in which parents possess an affect on their population dimension in Newport, Middletown and Portsmouth. Coyote researcher Numi Mitchell of the Narragansett Bay Coyote Locate will grunt a presentation on coyotes, adopted by a panel dialogue. The Newport Day-to-day News reported the dialogue board is an installment in the Desirable Island Sequence, which is aimed at confronting components the entire island faces. John Shea, govt director of the planning commission, said“What occurs in a single fragment of the island usually affects us all.”

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Edisto Sea inch: Biologists will draw necropsies on one whale that died and three that were euthanized after becoming stranded on a beach. Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network Director Lauren Rust told WCSC-TV the whales were came upon Saturday morning on Edisto Sea inch, on the replacement hand it was as soon as now not obvious how prolonged they had been there. Marine biologist Peyton Sasnett, who went to the beach, said they looked as if it would be pilot whales. Rust said pilot whales are in overall on the very least 100 miles offshore, “so in case you gape them advance this stop to shore, it’s positively alarming.” Getting outcomes of the necropsies would perhaps even purchase just a few week weeks. Rust said assessments will decide whether the whales suffered inside injuries, a viral an infection or fell in sad health because of human components like ingesting plastic in the ocean.

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Sioux Falls: The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council has banned the sale, possession and exercise of e-cigarettes on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in gentle of the nationwide outbreak of vaping-linked diseases. The tribal council popular the contemporary ordinance banning e-cigarettes sooner or later of its assembly final week. The most penalty for violating the contemporary ban is either a elegant of $250 or a sentence of 30 days in penal advanced, constant with the ordinance. Tribal President Julian Undergo Runner applauded the council’s “heroic action” final week in response to the deaths that possess came about nationwide because of vaping-linked diseases. Undergo Runner moreover identified as for additional action on tobacco law on the reservation. There had been six circumstances of vaping-linked illness in South Dakota and 805 circumstances total in the US. Twelve deaths had been confirmed in 10 states, constant with the Centers for Illness Control and Prevention.

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Kingston: The Tennessee Division of Health said trying out by the Tennessee Valley Authority and voice regulators dominated out the presence of coal ash – a toxic stew of chemicals, heavy metals and radioactive materials – in the stop 3 inches of dirt underneath the grass-lined soccer fields on the Swan Pond Sports Complex in Roane County. That linked trying out published the presence in the dirt of many of the substances in coal ash, though at ranges considered protected by the Environmental Security Agency. The wisely being department legend confirmed the dirt is extremely rich in two coal ash substances – arsenic and chromium – but moreover at ranges considered protected by the EPA and conventional of soil sooner or later of Tennessee. The TVA said the legend – made public earlier this month – proves the soccer fields and sport areas are protected for the final public.

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Laredo: A boil-water price has been issued for the border city of Laredo because of low chlorine ranges in the municipal ingesting water provide. Laredo Mayor Pete Saenz on Saturday evening announced the boil-water price for the city of about 260,000. He said routine trying out of Laredo’s ingesting water came upon the city did now not retain acceptable disinfection ranges in parts of the system. Saenz said there’s no water shortage in Laredo however the chlorine subject formula a doable wisely being chance. The mayor had no timetable when the boil-water price, issued as a precaution, will doubtless be lifted. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality required Laredo to enlighten all customers to boil their water till additional price. The attention applies to all consumption, in conjunction with for cooking, deepest washing and brushing enamel.

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Salt Lake Metropolis: ATVs will doubtless be allowed on determined roads in the five national parks in Utah beneath a recent rule from the National Park Provider that went thru without public observation. The Salt Lake Tribune reported the company told park administrators final week in a memo just a few protection swap that lets in ATVs on predominant access roads and aid roads. It puts the national parks in compliance with a voice law passed in 2008 that lets in any “side road-lawful” automobile on voice and county roads. The guideline takes attain Nov. 1 and perfect applies to national parks in Utah. Agency spokeswoman Vanessa Lacayo said ATVs still can’t hunch off-side road wherever they want. Off-motorway automobile advocacy teams pushed U.S. government officers to make the swap. Conservation teams criticized a rule they said will aggravate web page visitors and parking in parks.

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Burlington: The Rev. Shannon MacVean-Brown has was the first gloomy bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont. A consecration ceremony was as soon as held Saturday for MacVean-Brown. She said her precedence will doubtless be welcoming of us of all backgrounds and ages. MacVean-Brown was as soon as raised in Detroit and most just as of late labored in Indiana. She said she has experienced feeling remoted as a gloomy lady. Now she strives for inclusivity in the church. The Episcopal Church of Vermont has bigger than 6,100 parishioners in 45 congregations sooner or later of the voice. MacVean-Brown succeeds Bishop Thomas Ely, who served for 18 years and is retiring.

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Richmond: Transportation officers are looking out for public input of a find of Virginia’s 179 miles of the Interstate 95 hall. The Commonwealth Transportation Board has initiated a find to draw a belief to establish key subject areas along the hall, between the Woodrow Wilson Bridge in Alexandria and the North Carolina border. Feedback offered by communities, industries and others will doubtless be considered as team contributors proceed find of the hall and prepare a draft belief legend in the autumn. The board plans to legend to the Usual Meeting in January. A assortment of conferences will accept as true with doable security and congestion solutions along the hall. The predominant assembly will doubtless be held in Fredericksburg on Oct. 9, following by one in Richmond on Oct. 15 and one in Woodbridge on Oct. 17.

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Everett: A ban on single-exercise plastic baggage is living to cross into attain in Everett as fragment of an effort to aid the exercise of recyclable baggage. The Everett Herald reported purchasers in Everett must purchase paper or thicker-plastic score for 5 cents each and every from cashiers because the ban on single-exercise baggage took attain Monday. Officials said the ban moreover applies to ingesting locations and lift-out orders, with an exception for bags aged to prevent spillage. Officials said dry cleansing and newspaper sacks are popular beneath the contemporary ordinance. Staff at a Safeway retailer in Everett said they've already speed out of the thin, plastic baggage and switched to paper baggage. The retailer said this can sell reusable baggage for $1 each and every.

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Beckley: A competition that celebrates West Virginia’s Rocket Boys has ended its two-decade speed. Author and feeble NASA engineer Homer Hickam told news retailers that the Rocket Boys Competition, which ended Saturday in Beckley, was as soon as the final one. The competition had moved to Beckley in 2012 after it was as soon as held since 1999 in Coalwood in McDowell County. The competition eminent the three years from 1957 to 1960 when Hickam and his buddies launched rockets whereas in excessive college. They in the break won a national science dazzling. Hickam’s novel, “Rocket Boys,” is set these experiences and rising up in Coalwood. The guide was as soon as adapted into the 1999 movie “October Sky.”

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Superior: Husky Energy said it has been given approval to rebuild its oil refinery after an explosion and a assortment of fires final year injured 36 of us and required basic of the city to evacuate. Husky, which does enterprise as Superior Refining Company in Wisconsin, said this can open the $400 million belief straight with the target of resuming partial operations in 2021. Wisconsin Public Radio reported that residents and tribal leaders expressed frustration over Husky’s plans to proceed utilizing the extremely toxic chemical hydrogen fluoride as fragment of its refining process. Town’s evacuation was as soon as largely due to the the presence of hydrogen fluoride, which will also be risky to human wisely being. The tank containing the chemical wasn’t broken by the explosion, which was as soon as precipitated by a gap in a valve. The mayors of Superior and adjacent Duluth, Minnesota, moreover identified as on Husky Energy to purchase away hydrogen fluoride from its operations. The Wisconsin Division of Natural Sources popular the allow. Earlier this year, Company CEO Settle Symonds told Wisconsin Public Radio that company officers explored utilizing selections to hydrogen fluoride, but there's no better option. The corporate has said it plans to make security improvements to the existing alkylation unit, in conjunction with a like a flash acid switch system to take grasp of any hydrofluoric acid in case of a release.

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Laramie: The Laramie Boomerang reported Friday that Joint Training Committee legislatures voted unanimously Thursday to possess the Legislative Provider Situation of enterprise draft a bill limiting the amount of Hathaway Scholarship funds aged for College of Wyoming graduate college. Officials said 70 students aged $270,000 worth of want-based entirely funds to pay for college sooner or later of the 2017-2018 tutorial year and the amount is expected to raise in coming years. Officials said a proposed bill recommends permitting funds to be aged when paying at as soon as for tuition and bills in want to in conjunction with books, room and board and other charges. Officials said one other bill would enable students to petition for a funding raise constant with keeping a excessive grade-point common.

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The deadline for submissions to the government’s new industrial strategy is today and the Creative Industries Federation has got its oar in for the arts and creativity just in time. The Fed wants creative enterprise zones, a business booster network and a creative careers campaign to set right the negative careers advice being given on the sector.

The Fed’ s John Kampfner says in his submission that it has been a common political ploy to dismiss the creative industries as lightweight, while happily raking in the income from the likes of War Horse, Sherlock and Slumdog Millionaire. That has to change: apart from the £90 billion a year  the creative industries are worth to the economy, there are almost three million jobs in the sector, he says in his blueprint, a rise of more than 5% between 2014 and 2015, all wealth creators and al voters.

But the Fed may be pushing at an open door because the industry secretary, Greg Clark, has already said at the Fed’s birthday party in January that the creative industries were “absolutely central” to his thinking. “In my view” he said “it is impossible to separate London’s economic success from its cultural success, from theatre to architecture from music to fashion from design to dance”, the one thing on which he is probably in agreement with Sadiq Khan, the London mayor, who is putting the arts and creative industries at the forefront of his post-Brexit strategy.

In the current AI Khan’s deputy for culture, Justine Simons, says that cultural policy has moved from “being a niche thing into the mainstream”, and that her job standing at the shoulder of the mayor is “embedding culture into everything else we do”. But is the rest of the country in tune with Kampfner, Clark and Khan? Next month there are to be mayoral elections for powerful new satraps in Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Tees Valley, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, and West of England, with a seventh in Sheffield being voted on next year. One of those likely to be elected, Andy Burnham, is a former culture secretary.

These new mayors, whose writ will run over large tracts, could and should preside over new powerbases that will be able to challenge central government in key policy areas, and for too long the regional creative light has been hidden under bushels of the likes of transport, housing and healthcare. To have credibility with the extra-European trading partners they hope to link up with they will have to do what Khan and Simons already do and push creativity and its potential to the front of their portfolios, and they should figure large in their election manifestos. It is not just the earning power, which is immense, but the expectation of both their constituents now and their business counterparts. “All big cities now know that if they want to be successful they can’t do it without culture” says Justine Simons, who is also chair of the World Cities Culture Forum. “They have to have culture at the heart of their strategy”.

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OUAT Cast Singing/Dancing Talents:

With today's announcement that there will be a musical episode on Once this spring, I decided to compile a list of the casts singing and dancing talents for reference as we speculate and look forward to the episode. If you see anything I missed, let me know!

Series Regulars

Colin O’Donoghue singing at MEZCLA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQtQvpgzJiA

Colin O’Donoghue singing and playing guitar at FT3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi30B3BGkrQ

Colin O’Donoghue singing in “The Dust Storm” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVhsxr6_BDg

Colin O’Donoghue singing “Nora” in “The Dust Storm” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDtMXvRO1ko

Emilie de Ravin singing “Catch a Falling Star” in “Lost.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svoR-EMZZnk

Ginnifer Goodwin dancing in “Something Borrowed” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2PRvux-kC4

Ginnifer Goodwin singing “Believe in Your Dream” from Sophia the First. (She comes in near the end of the song.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3zPe9dgDWg

Ginnifer Goodwin singing “Tink’n About Animals” in “Tinkerbell and the Legend of the Neverbeast” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8vg2zy1DJg&feature=youtu.be

Jared Gilmore (I know he said somewhere in an interview that he doesn’t sing. I can’t remember which interview though. Send a link my way if you find it!)

Josh Dallas singing and dancing in the musical “On the Town” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcK9srdmy1I

Jennifer Morrison dancing the Meringue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAbfTCnViX4

Jennifer Morrison singing in “Albion: The Enchanted Stallion” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5ZpiaV78zo

Lana Parrilla singing three different songs in a video montage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3TyfuyxC3E

Rebecca Mader singing a snippet of “Defying Gravity” at a con. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLeKo6P8WqI

Rebecca Mader singing “Just the Way You Are” at Ever After. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXCo3eRe2n8

Rebecca Mader singing a snippet of “Let it Go” at a con. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gDysLtEGco

Rebecca Mader singing “Smelly Cat” at a con. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q4Skhf0Slk

Rebecca Mader singing a song in German at a con. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFVxTcKVKjQ

Robert Carlyle singing in “California Solo” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDOp5i187yc

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Guest Stars: 

(I’m just picking one video for each, so the list doesn’t get ten miles long. People with a * by their names are already confirmed to appear in 6B)

Ava Acres (Young Regina) singing “You Belong With Me” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=attg8uM6iWw

Bailee Madison (Young Snow) singing “You Belong With Me” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN0Q8uzELHk

Barbara Hershey (Cora) singing “Adeste Fideles” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXRLsYI8N0I

Benjamin Stockham (Young Owen) singing “What Makes You Beautiful” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zI_hChLjyM

Beverley Elliott (Granny) singing a parody of “Rolling in the Deep” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyH2e0K_UJM

Brad Dourif (Zoso) singing “Movin’ With the Wind” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHvKz0yMkno

Brighton Sharbino (Young Ingrid) singing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnCbBOul9bc

Caroline Morahan (Queen Elinor) singing “Think” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPqht2ZwjwE

Cassidy Freeman (Jacque) singing “How Do We Do” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q93cuNUqXh8

*Charles Mesure (Blackbeard) singing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOsjaaQCbQo

Chris Gauthier (Smee) singing “Born to be Wild” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gq1r0Tj7f8

Craig Horner (Count of Monte Cristo) singing “Save  Your Talk” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFbSw1pGG3E

David Anders (Dr. Whale) singing “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ewpxMxExo

Elizabeth Lail (Anna) singing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eqWIGTuFFY

Emma Caulfield (Blind Witch) singing “Will Be His Misses” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXj0uD9jEE0

Ernie Hudson (Poseidon) singing “The Impossible Dream” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ7aH8OXeL0

Ethan Embry (Greg Mendell/Owen) singing and playing the guitar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aHbbgHuRjY

Frances O’Connor (Colette, Belle’s mother) singing in the film “Book of ?Love” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wff7Fyw0wjQ

*Gil McKinney (Prince Eric) singing “All of Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4xnyShuNuk

Jamie Dornan (Sheriff Graham/Huntsman) singing “When I Go” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBsrXOTDjvo

Jessy Schram (Cinderella/Ashley) singing “Hallelujah” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyQ19DOltW8

Joana Metrass (Guinevere) singing “Part of Your World” https://www.instagram.com/p/BPHYHm8g7G5/?taken-by=joanametrass&hl=en

Jorge Garcia (Tiny/Anton) singing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt4hoji33o8

*Karen David (Jasmine) singing “A Whole New World” https://www.instagram.com/p/BL6-RWKg3FS/?taken-by=karendavidofficial&hl=en

Karley Scott Collins (Gretel) singing “I’m Fine” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRvQG7a_hiY

Lee Arenberg (Grumpy/Leroy) singing “Yo Ho, Yo Ho A Pirates Life for Me” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUMZbCCaQsE

Lisa Banes (Lady Tremaine) singing “Afraid to Love” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flsQC1O0-XE

*McKenna Grace (Young Emma) singing “Do You Want to Build a Snowman” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUsPVIWtYFE

Michael Coleman (Happy) singing “Something in the Way She Moves” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0OfdKJh-rU

Michael Raymond-James (Neal/Baelfire) singing at MEZCLA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfeA6FXtZLk

*Nick Eversman (Liam #2) singing “Another Brick in the Wall” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STA5J93yCdk

Noah Bean (Daniel) singing “Suffragette City” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iUQIdHkt9g

Olivia Steele-Falconer (Violet) singing “Stay” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmZ5cN_Xs2A

Parker Croft (Felix) singing “Pyramus and Thisby” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYJz8AjF0Bs

Pascale Hutton (Gerda) singing a lullaby. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cpz2Brq5OU

Quinn Lord (Hansel) singing “Caterpillar Song” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16sIQw5-BTY

Raphael Sbarge (Archie/Jiminy) singing “When You Wish Upon a Star” (Turn your sound up!) https://www.instagram.com/p/taRM1RxDUP/

Robin Weigert (Bo Peep) singing “Adelaide’s Lament” and “Bushel and a Peck” http://robinweigert.com/fun/index.html

Rose McGowan (Young Cora) singing “Fever” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJQfDcniaKc

*Rose McIver (Tinkerbell) singing “Let You Go” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0YrvP-oe28

Sam Witwer (Mr. Hyde) singing “The Date Song” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXQQgZCc_ng

Sarah Bolger (Aurora) singing “Desperado” as a child. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYVTGdEPawY

Scott Michael-Foster (Kristoff)  singing “Footsteps” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-fHV2zqiQk

*Sean Maguire (Robin Hood) singing and dancing in “Now I Found You” music video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Bv_mD4X-Y

Sebastian Roche (King Stefan) singing David Bowie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1DL6MJhrfM

Sebasitan Stan (Mad Hatter/Jefferson) singing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJbBz-_NI9U

Sinqua Walls (Lancelot) rapping “Shark Bite” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpExMa4mi0Y

Timothy Webber (Apprentice) singing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI9vODRH_5E

Tony Amendola (Geppetto/Marko) singing "When You Wish Upon a Star” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQc3WibWmgk

Victoria Smurfit (Cruella) singing “Santa’s Super Sleigh” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhGR8rN6JuM

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Fridge Analysis

Stonehill,

Help! This is Jack’s fridge. Here’s the deal: I really like him and he makes me laugh. We sleep together, but he hardly calls and when he does, we hardly go out. I understand that he travels a ton, but I’d like to see him more. Basically I don’t know what’s going on, does his Fridge tell you anything?

xoxo

-Lindsey

Stonehill Analysis

Lindsey,

You seem like a sweetheart and I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Greg is as genuine as a 3-dollar bill. He’s not traveling a ton, he just doesn’t want to see you. If he did, he’d call and take you out in public.

We’re here to find the one, so I won’t waste your time with Jack the Jerk-off, and prefer to yank the Band-Aid off quickly.

Lets dive into his fridge. This is a guy who clearly doesn’t leave home much. How do I know? Cause I travel a ton and my fridge doesn’t look like I have enough to survive when the big one hits. Nobody’s left behind this much evidence since OJ, check out the bottom…

I can’t tell you when his bushel of apples was bought, but considering they’re pristine, and without plastic, they’re fresh. His bread in the left drawer is also in good shape and a clear signal he’ll be in town awhile. Buying bread is committing to making sandwiches and/or breakfast at home.

Moving up a shelf, the guy has Tupperware. That’s a pretty domesticated dude. I don’t have Tupperware and I’m married for God’s sake. If he can put enough thought into keeping his shit fresh, he can put enough thought into dialing a freakin’ phone.

Moving up a shelf, look at those sandwiches. They’re less than a day old, and I hope one is for you. If not, he’s having company after you skedaddle. This guy is too damn healthy to down two heroes at once.

Now in defense of you short-changing yourself, I assume Jack has a hard body. There’s a serious amount healthy shit here. I never ever saw a dude with coconut water. Jamie Lee Curtis has less yogurt. The guy’s got game. Almond milk for cereal, skim milk for breakfast and coffee, I’m Impressed. For him, not your prospects.

I don’t even need to get into the bottle of wine and olives, my point is made.

Jack is clearly capable of caring about himself and his comfort, though not your feelings. Now, I’m assuming if you’re sharing your feelings with me, you are with him. (If not, we’ll talk about a good therapist)

Jack is not a bad guy if he doesn’t like you. He’s a bad guy if he’s lying to you. But you’re the one who’s truly at fault here. You dictate the relationship you want to live. If you’re giving Jack everything he needs (i.e.: a good rogering) without getting what you need in return, you’re empowering him to do so.

If you want to see him more, don’t shag him until he sees you more. If you want to be taken out, don’t shag him til he takes you out. Stop giving him what he needs without getting what you need in return. If he stops calling? F’m. Buy a Rabbit and join a tennis league.

If you value yourself less than Happy Hour at Sizzler, that’s what you get…average dudes who want all they can eat for a minimal investment.

Fridge Dating Scorecard

Shag on first date: 8 Considering the guy is probably in great shape and not worthy of being your boyfriend, this is clearly a Bone and Bolt situation.

Marry: 2 The dick won’t even take you out for dinner, Tina Turner saw more chivalry than this.

Sleeping with the Enemy: 3 The guy seems like he has far more fish to fry, but having enough shit in his fridge for a stakeout bumps him up a couple of points.

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This Kid Drummer Absolutely Crushes ROYAL BLOOD's "Out Of The Black"

This Kid Drummer Absolutely Crushes ROYAL BLOOD’s “Out Of The Black”

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Drummer Nandi Bushell, who you might know from her covers of Queens of the Stone Age and Nirvana, is back to show you how to have a blast playing drums. Bushell has covered Royal Blood’s “Out of the Black” and look like she’s having the time of her life doing it!

Posted by Greg Kennelty on May 19, 2020 at 1:18 pm

What do you…

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TICKY TACKY (starring Oscar Isaac) from A Saboteur on Vimeo.

A wealthy and powerful man is betrayed by those closest to him, and under the guidance of his trusted confidant, devises a fiery requital. With a nod to the proscenium, this darkly comedic chamber piece stars Oscar Isaac, Tim Rock, Erika Rankin, Helen Rogers, and Julian Shatkin. Written and directed by Brian Petsos. TICKY TACKY — tickytacky.co

Official Selection 2014 Palm Springs International ShortFest, 2014 Denver Film Festival, 2015 Florida Film Festival, 2015 Newport Beach Film Festival, 2015 Independent Film Festival Boston, a Special Presentation of Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2015 in association with the Tokyo International Film Festival, and featured Short of the Week (shortoftheweek.com) 2015.

TICKY TACKY

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Brian Petsos

PRODUCED BY Dan Berk Brian Petsos Ryan Farhoudi

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Tim Rock

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Bryan Gaynor Chadd Harbold Robert Olsen

STARRING Oscar Isaac Tim Rock Erika Rankin Helen Rogers and Julian Shatkin

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Daniel Katz

PRODUCTION DESIGNER Annie Simeone

EDITOR Bryan Gaynor

COSTUME DESIGNER Stacey Berman

ORIGNAL MUSIC BY Justin Hori

CASTING DIRECTOR Jennifer Euston, CSA

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR — Alexander Mager 1ST ASSISTANT CAMERA — Adrien Bertolle 2ND ASSISTANT CAMERA — Timothé Arene CAMERA OPERATOR — David Isern CAMERA INTERN — Lauren Perrin ASSISTANT TO MR. KATZ — Yasmina Chambenoit GAFFER — Andrew Hubbard BEST BOY ELECTRIC — Jason Duffet KEY GRIP — Drew Verderame BEST BOY GRIP — Joachim Glaser DOLLY GRIP — Yves Lamigeon PRODUCTION SOUND — Brennan McVicar HAIR & MAKEUP — Stephanie Wise LOCATION MANAGER — Henry Winnik CASTING ASSISTANT — Emer O’Callaghan CATERING — Director’s Catering WEAPONS — The Specialists, LTD EFFECTS COORDINATOR — Bohdan Bushell KEY PRODUCTION ASSISTANT — Ryan Brown PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS — Meesha Meksin, Nephretitti Schenk, Porsche Jackson VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR — Cary Flaum FLAME ARTIST — Nic Seresin DESIGN & ANIMATION — Andre Vandenburg COLORIST — Ron Sudul of Nice Shoes POST-PRODUCTION AUDIO — Cory Choy of Silver Sound

A VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO Rusty Mutt Shilo and Hayden 5

SPECIAL THANKS Adam Brody Alec Bates Alex Orlovsky Andrew Carlberg Artjail Felipe Dieppa Gabriel Nadig Greg Gordon Hand Held Films Jay Alaimo Justin Simpson Kurt Enger Max Nichols Michael Dimmit Ryan McKone SAG-AFTRA

FEATURING THE MUSIC OF Ludwig van Beethoven Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Strauss II and Mutilation Rites “Broken Axis” is available on the album EMPYREAN

FILMED ON LOCATION IN NEW YORK CITY

This motion picture is protected pursuant to the provisions of the laws of the United States of America and other countries. Any unauthorized duplication, distribution and/or exhibition of this motion picture may result in civil liability and criminal prosecution.

Characters and incidents portrayed and the names herein are fictitious, and any similarity to the name, characters or history of any person is entirely coincidental and unintentional. © 2014 Last Pictures & A Saboteur. All rights reserved.

(Significant inquiries may be directed to nobody@asaboteur.com and will be responded to accordingly.)

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5% (2017)

Written and Directed by Greg Bushell

Starring Benjamin K. Daniels

[Unofficial] music by Greg Palmer

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Anyone who remembers the Iraq War of 2003 remembers Jessica Lynch, the first “American hero” of that conflict. Her convoy had been ambushed behind enemy lines and she was the last soldier alive in her unit, fighting heroically down to her “last bullet” — despite having been shot and stabbed. She was taken prisoner and later rescued by Special Forces in a daring raid.

At least, that was the story the Pentagon told.

Private Jessica Lynch, who joined the Army because she could not afford college.

The truth was very, very different. Yes, Lynch had been injured, but only from the crash of her truck. She never fired a shot. She was taken to a hospital and treated very well. The truth was very, very different. Yes, Lynch had been injured, but only from the crash of her truck. She never fired a shot. She was taken to a hospital and treated very well.

Lynch never understood why the military had to make things up about her. She was no hero, she was just a girl from West Virginia whose dream was to teach kindergarten. Unfortunately for Jessica, her family did not have the money to afford to send her to college to get the degree necessary to become a teacher. The Army, with its tuition payment program, seemed the only way out.

Jessica’s brother had a first-year scholarship and was trying to work, but he didn’t have the money for his second year. But when the Army recruiter came from Parkersburg, all three Lynch kids — Greg, Jessica and Brandi — were interested in what he had to say.

He talked about the travel, and the training they would get. This was the summer of 2001, before there was even a whisper of war in the air. But “he did not lie to the kids,” Dee Lynch says. He said there was always the possibility of war in the future. “But at that time it was before Sept. 11, and there was no terrorism,” Jessica recalls, “so we were like, ‘That would never happen to me.’”

Jessica Lynch was one of the thousands of young Americans who joined the Armed Forces as the only way to get ahead in life, only to find that they might have to pay the ultimate price.

  Jessica Lynch graduating from West Virginia University / AP Photo

Now, years later, Lynch is defined by her experience: she still suffers nightmares and the long-term effects of her injuries and the trauma of her capture.

But at least she has one thing: a college degree in Education, thanks to her military scholarship.

Still, Jessica is unable to fulfill her dream. Due to her injuries, she works only sometimes as a substitute teacher. The job allows her the flexibility to live with her disabilities and her pain, which often prevent her from working. She still does hours of physical therapy a week; still wears a brace and has only a numb sensation in one leg.

This is what Neoliberalism has wrought: a 17-year-old high school student wants to become a teacher, but first, she has to go to war, become terribly maimed and almost die in order to get the education she needs to fulfill her dream.

  The American Empire — for the soldier, not so different from its predecessors

The soldiers who fought for the Roman Empire did not do so for “the glory of Rome.” Sure, that was the bravado, that was the official line, but everyone knew that the real reason was money and wealth. For the foot soldier, it was his salarium, or salary, which at one time in the early Empire meant literally a handful of salt a day. For the officer, there was the promise of land, farms, and resources from the conquered territories.

Likewise, British soldiers were 100% “paid professionals” up until the first draft in 1916. The empire was built by paid British soldiers as well as mercenaries from all over the globe (Hessians, Gurkhas, etc.).

It is not so different in the US forces today. Sure, many people join the military out of tradition, out of patriotism (as in after 9/11), but for the vast majority of recruits, they join because they, like Jessica Lynch, have nowhere else to go in order to get ahead.

  The End of the Draft Poses Challenges

The US had a draft in place all throughout the Cold War, from Korea through Vietnam. But in 1973, under tremendous public pressure, the draft was suspended and replaced with an “all volunteer” military.

Reagan sent the National Guard onto the Berkeley campus.

A big part of that public pressure against the draft came from draft-aged men who were attending — you guessed it — large public universities. Ronald Reagan, then Governor of California, raged against “those hippies up in Berkeley” who were demonstrating against the War and burning their draft cards by the bushel. He actually sent in the National Guard to quell protests on campus. Indeed, his harsh and deadly methods were the precursors to more recent deadly police actions against Occupy Wall Street and DAPL.

The Tuition Trap

In Part II of this series, I explained how, under Neoliberalism, putting a price on public higher education had separated America’s young people by class and by money. As I mentioned in Part I of this series, the 3rd Tenet of Neoliberalism states that there are “winners” and “losers”. Starting in the mid-70’s, the country’s public universities became the province of “winners” that was determined not by academic ability, but by the ability to pay.

This all started under Ronald Reagan.

Reagan led a cabal of conservative Governors to start increasing tuition at public universities. There would be no more “hippies” on campus, only smart-dressed kids whose parents could afford to pay their tuition, or else students with loans or grants who could literally not afford to “get into trouble” by protesting. Reagan has a nefarious educational legacy both as Governor and as President.

As Governor, Reagan demanded a legislative investigation of alleged Communism and sexual misconduct at the University of California at Berkeley. He insisted on public hearings, claiming “a small minority of hippies, radicals and filthy speech advocates” had caused disorder and that they should “be taken by the scruff of the neck and thrown off campus — permanently”

Reagan called for ending free tuition at UCAL; instituted a 20% across the board funding cut and all but eliminated school construction funding. Once in the White House, he ramped up his crusade, calling for the elimination of the Department of Education, and cutting Federal funding for education by half. When he was elected the federal share of total education spending was 12%. When he left office it stood at just 6%. The result of this new ideology, this Neoliberal revolution in public education funding was that tuition rates at public universities skyrocketed.

Public college tuition skyrocketed after the Draft was abolished. Funny how that works.

For poor families, the military suddenly became a more attractive option.

“Be all you can be”

While Reagan was slashing Federal funding for education, he was pumping massive amounts of money into Defense. Suddenly, the military had plenty of money available for training, scholarships, college degree and vocational education programs. There is an old saying among people in the military, when they talk about the education, the degrees, the training and other benefits they get from the military:

“Thank goodness I have a rich uncle.”

The “uncle” of course is Uncle Sam. The government — specifically the military, will pay for you to go to college — you just have to volunteer for a few years first. The problem, of course, is that it rarely works out that way.

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This bait and switch goes on today — even more so because of all the active wars that are going on.

When Jessica Lynch joined, the idea of going into a “hot” war zone seemed remote. Now, anyone joining the military knows they could be in harm’s way just a few months later — despite the recruiters’ assurances that the odds are “slim” that they will wind up in combat.

This means that every year, it gets harder and harder to lure desperate young people into the armed services. So recruiters have taken to lying more and more. Take college for instance. Only about 37% of applicants ever get into the Montgomery GI Bill program. Even then, you are lucky to actually get a degree. Jessica Lynch was one of only the fortunate 15% to do so.

  The most deadly form of “intersectionality”

So now we see how it all ties together. The skyrocketing cost of public education at state schools can be traced directly back to the abolishment of the draft. Having college remain economically out of reach for large swaths of the population, while simultaneously offering people a chance to get a leg up on the ladder of success by “serving their country” is a devil’s mixture of cruel neoliberal policy mixed with good, old-fashioned racism and elitism. You know that we would not be in so many wars if the sons and daughters of Congressmen were in the front lines.

We can discuss whether or not this was an orchestrated development, but the fact remains that under today’s situation, offering tuition-free public college, vo-tech or trade schools and other forms of post-secondary education and training would have an immediate and negative impact on the US military’s ability to recruit people who simply want to better themselves.

Kamala Harris came under fire for opposing early release for nonviolent prisoners because it would deplete the supply of cheap prison labor on which so many of her campaign donors depend. Her lawyers argued that “prisons would lose an important labor pool”. Now, the prison labor program may not have started out to be an indispensable part of the State’s economy, but over time it has become one. The situation is similar with free public education beyond high school. Introducing it would upset the current system.

The next time you see a centrist Democrat or a Republican speak against tuition-free college, check out how they vote on war and the defense budget. They probably are big-time supporters. Certainly, this is the case with Hillary Clinton, Diane Feinstein and many other “establishment” Democrats. And of course, it is dogma for Republicans.

But we must not lose sight of the terrible human cost of this aspect of neoliberalism. Jessica Lynch never wanted to be a soldier; she never wanted to be a hero. All she ever wanted to be was a kindergarten teacher.

Yet because her family was poor she had no choice but to join the military in hopes of being able to get her “rich Uncle Sam” to pay her way through college.

The tragic irony of this story is that she did get her degree, but her tour of duty in a war zone left her physically unable to fully realize her goal of being a full-time teacher.

And that is the result of runaway neoliberalism and the exigencies of Empire.

  This is Neoliberalism, Part IV: The Military Industrial Complex, coming soon to Progressive Army

  This article was originally posted on Medium.

  This is Neoliberalism, Part Three: How We Build Empire Anyone who remembers the Iraq War of 2003 remembers Jessica Lynch, the first “American hero” of that conflict.

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Fast Food - Not Responsible for Obesity

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